One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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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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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again. ~Mara Wilson
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese 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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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~D. H. Lawrence
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. ~Miles Teller
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese 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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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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