A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone with you? ~Cassandra Clare
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun. ~Hafez
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. ~Moses
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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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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"He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it. ~Kiersten White
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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