Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Music is the eye of the ear. ~Thomas Draxe
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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