There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. ~Pierre Corneille
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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