I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish 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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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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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
#quotes #nguyen-cao-ky #peace #united-states

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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