One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Science is changing. God's Word does not change! ~Adrian Rogers
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It is amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you are no longer president. ~George H. W. Bush
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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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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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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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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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education. ~Melanie Griffith
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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. ~Jennifer Aniston
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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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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