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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.
Topic: Adversity
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Topic: Age
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Topic: Age
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Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.
Topic: Age
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. -Mark Twain.
Topic: Age
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Topic: Ambition
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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Topic: Anger
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Topic: Authority
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Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved.
Topic: Babies
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Topic: Birth
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
Topic: Books
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Topic: Books
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water.
Topic: Books
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Topic: Books and Reading
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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
Topic: Boys
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A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!
Topic: Cats
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Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
Topic: Cats
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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
Topic: Change
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Topic: Cheerfulness
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Topic: Civilization
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If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
Topic: Compliment
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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Topic: Compliment
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Topic: Confidence
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Topic: Conformity
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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
Topic: Conformity
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A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
Topic: Conversation
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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
Topic: Country
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Topic: Courage
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Topic: Courage
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Topic: Courage
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It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.
Topic: Courage
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
Topic: Courage
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Topic: Cowardice
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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Topic: Creativity
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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
Topic: Criticism
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When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.
Topic: Cruelty
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do... Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Topic: Curiosity
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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
Topic: Custom
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On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.
Topic: Dance
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Topic: Death
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Topic: Death
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All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
Topic: Death
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
Topic: Death
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We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
Topic: Death
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