All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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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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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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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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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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