More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish 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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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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