He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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