The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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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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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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