May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. ~Brandon Sanderson
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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