Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive. ~Abraham Maslow
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish 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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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself. ~Marion Woodman
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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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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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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