Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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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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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food; you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study. ~Henry B. Eyring
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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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