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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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quotistAs the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. ~Hugh Jackman
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world. ~Frederick Lenz
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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