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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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. ~Sean Astin
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish 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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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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