I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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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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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ~Richard Dawkins
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington; today it is 1 in 4. ~John Ensign
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not. ~Jane Austen
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. ~Pope Pius IX
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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Science is not about what is true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence. ~Lee Smolin
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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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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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