We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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