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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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English 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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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian 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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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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I am horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. ~Sam Trammell
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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