In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
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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
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Laughter is the best medicine. ~Modern Proverb
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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