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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
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    Mark Twain
    “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.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: greatness
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: patriotism, politics
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  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: heartbreak
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  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: books, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
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    Mark Twain
    “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, men, women
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
    but to be fearless in facing them.

    Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
    for the heart to conquer it.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: danger, fearlessness, pain, perseverance
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: aim, choice, goal
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
    ― Tagore
    tags: joy, service
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: impermanence, inspirational
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
    clear, transparent, pure.
    The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
    dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: wisdom
    528 likes

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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: emotion, logic
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: explanation, love, mystery
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: love
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: child, god, man, message
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
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  • #28
    Rudyard Kipling
    “He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, Many Inventions
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  • #29
    Rudyard Kipling
    “I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: life-lessons, outlook
    778 likes

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  • #30
    Rudyard Kipling
    “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works
    tags: fear, liars, self-deception
    404 likes



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