For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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"Alien" asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. "The Matrix" delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. ~Jason Reitman
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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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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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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Gossip is hardly uplifting. ~Ginger Rogers
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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