Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
#proverbs #welsh-proverbs #justice

Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
#quotes #amy-tan #family

The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani 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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Hello and hi. Slowly open your eyes. Get up from your bed. Go to the window. The great sun is waiting to say "Good Morning" to you.
#greetings #cute

The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York. ~Michael Arad
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
#quotes #james-fenton #english

A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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