Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome. ~David Belle
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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I'm happy that I was able to experience a normal life besides show business, because it gives you something to draw from. ~Ashley Tisdale
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. ~Hannah More
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Lovely message for a lovely person, from lovely friend, for a lovely reason, at a lovely time, from a lovely mind, in a lovely mood, in a lovely style, to wish you; have a lovely birthday...
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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