Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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