The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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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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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American 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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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish 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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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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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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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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