You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world. ~Michael Flatley
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