The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing. and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. ~Joey Ramone
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Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ~James Mooney
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish 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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