A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy 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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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. ~Brandon Sanderson
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Hardest job in America is being a single mom. There are a lot of them and a lot of them in Baltimore and I think that they absolutely do their best. They can't keep continue to do their best if businesses flee the city. ~Dana Perino
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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