I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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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 man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
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Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness; and there is a big difference. ~Ty Cobb
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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If someone were to say, "Well, what would you have done differently?" I'd say, "Nothing." I think you need to make mistakes. ~Kim Kardashian
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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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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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~Courtney B. Vance
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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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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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