If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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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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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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