It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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That is a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~William Shakespeare
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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