Mark Twain Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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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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No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

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Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

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Sometimes people do get hurt

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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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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.

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When congress is in session no American is safe.

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Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

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If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

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