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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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. ~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that, women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. ~Louise Otto-Peters
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese 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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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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