And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent. ~Pat Benatar
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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