It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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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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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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