[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~Phil Jackson
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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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