Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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