A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music. ~Brett Eldredge
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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I am horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. ~Sam Trammell
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish 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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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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