Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
MARK TWAINA banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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