A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease. ~Jim Rohn
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The truest success is but the development of self. ~Charles Atlas
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person. ~Alana Stewart
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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If someone were to say, "Well, what would you have done differently?" I'd say, "Nothing." I think you need to make mistakes. ~Kim Kardashian
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
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Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God. ~Kelly Rowland
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