Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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