Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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If you care about the people you work with then you work harder. ~Kristine Lilly
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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I admit that, my wife is outspoken, but by whom? ~Sam Levenson
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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