It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ~Louis Pasteur
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
#quotes #ouida #family #hardship

If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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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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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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