Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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Three things see no end. A flower blighted ere it bloomed. A message that was wasted. And a journey that was doomed. ~Mercedes Lackey
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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