A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. ~Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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