Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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You are what you "tweet".~ Internet Proverb
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. ~Mason Cooley
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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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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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ~Pearl Bailey
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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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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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You seek problems because you need their gifts. ~Richard Bach
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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