Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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People are cooking less but obsessing about it more. ~Dougie Poynter
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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