The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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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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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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