A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ~Daniel Yergin
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
#quotes #matt-reeves #childhood

God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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