A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid. ~Rafael Nadal
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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