Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. ~Mel Brooks
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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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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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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