You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~Bonnie Wright
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
#quotes #sue-grafton #children #schooling

We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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