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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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know. ~Hunter Hayes
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music. ~Brett Eldredge
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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