All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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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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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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