A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role. ~Lauren Willig
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go! ~Gisele Bundchen
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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