Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French 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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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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