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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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision. ~Charles Stanley
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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