The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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An angry man is full of poison. ~Confucius
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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