Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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If you didn't watch "The Shield," you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch "The Shield." ~Timothy Simons
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. ~Abraham Lincoln
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They don't make coats for this kind of cold. ~Ryan Adams
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