A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Eating people is wrong. ~Michael Flanders
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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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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