No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese 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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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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