Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone with you? ~Cassandra Clare
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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You seek problems because you need their gifts. ~Richard Bach
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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