One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
#quotes #sarah-lacy #economy #china
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
#quotes #lord-byron #emotions #happiness #weeping
Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #speaking
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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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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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
#proverbs #african-proverbs #history #reality
When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
#quotes #holly-goldberg-sloan #imagination #music
I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
#quotes #alan-ball #nature #life #heart
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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