The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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I think "Voldemort" is definitely the scariest villain. ~Lauren Oliver
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