He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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As far as I'm concerned, I did'nt dream; ever. ~Theodore Sturgeon
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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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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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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