A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience. ~Brian Austin Green
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