If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well; nothing. ~Phoebe Tonkin
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature. ~Graham Cooke
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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