Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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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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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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