In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit 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
#quotes #henry-david-thoreau #night #music
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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