Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. ~Errol Morris
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish 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
#quotes #lauren-oliver #thinking #death

Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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