"You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus."

Twain, Mark on imagination
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"It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet."

Twain, Mark on illusion   

"The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

Twain, Mark on health
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"Keep away from small 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."

Twain, Mark on ambition
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"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly."

Twain, Mark on family
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"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."

Confucius on achievement
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"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."

Confucius on war
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"Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great."

Confucius on truth
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"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

Waitley, Denis on choice
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