Mark Twain Quotes, Coward Quotes

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

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Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

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I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

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Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

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The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

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Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

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The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

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If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

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It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

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Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

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Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

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It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

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There isn't any way to libel the human race.

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An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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