Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English 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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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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