Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. ~Moby
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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