I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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