The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish 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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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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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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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel. ~Heidi Baker
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I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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