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Ralph Waldo Emerson: We are prisoners...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: We are prisoners...

We are prisoners of ideas.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Francis Bacon: Next to religion,...

Francis Bacon: Next to religion,...

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Whatever you do,...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Whatever you do,...

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are...

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Francis Bacon: God has placed...

Francis Bacon: God has placed...

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the...

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Mark Twain: A man who...

Mark Twain: A man who...

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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Mark Twain: Humor must not...

Mark Twain: Humor must not...

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live...

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Mark Twain: Happiness ain't a...

Mark Twain: Happiness ain't a...

Happiness ain't a thing in itself -- it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. . . . And so, as soon as...

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Mark Twain: From his cradle...

Mark Twain: From his cradle...

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object but one -- to...

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Mark Twain: Why was the...

Mark Twain: Why was the...

Why was the human race created? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit...

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Mark Twain: Let us be...

Mark Twain: Let us be...

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of...

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Mark Twain: The true charm...

Mark Twain: The true charm...

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is...

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Mark Twain: A soiled baby,...

Mark Twain: A soiled baby,...

A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of...

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Mark Twain: All say, 'How...

Mark Twain: All say, 'How...

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...

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Mark Twain: Be good and...

Mark Twain: Be good and...

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Source: Following the Equator, caption for...

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Mark Twain: By common consent...

Mark Twain: By common consent...

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men,...

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Mark Twain: Cauliflower is nothing...

Mark Twain: Cauliflower is nothing...

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Source: Pudd'nhead...

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Mark Twain: Good friends, good...

Mark Twain: Good friends, good...

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience; this is the ideal life.

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Mark Twain: I have never...

Mark Twain: I have never...

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Source: In The...

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Mark Twain: I'm glad that...

Mark Twain: I'm glad that...

I'm glad that the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner.

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Mark Twain: Laws are sand,...

Mark Twain: Laws are sand,...

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings...

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