Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French 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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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~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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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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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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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English 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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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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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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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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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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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese 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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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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