Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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