The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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