The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. ~Thomas E. Sniegoski
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. ~Francis Schaeffer
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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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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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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