For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did; I just wanted to do it. ~B.o.B
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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