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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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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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch 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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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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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~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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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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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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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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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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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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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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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian 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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