For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear; but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a reference to him. You don't know that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister; but the possibility is all there. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went. ~J. J. Abrams
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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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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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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