In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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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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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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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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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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