You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did; I just wanted to do it. ~B.o.B
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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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My only scheme was to be a rapper. ~Eminem
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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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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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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