Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go. ~Wayne McGregor
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~Zach Johnson
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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