No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune. ~Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ~Louise Slaughter
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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ~Alexander Payne
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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