If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away. ~Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly. ~Pete Sampras
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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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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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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