Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to. ~Martin Luther
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English 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 new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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