Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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