If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ~Louis Pasteur
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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