And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. ~Dick Cheney
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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