He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
#quotes #natalie-clifford-barney #heart #scholars

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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"He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it. ~Kiersten White
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety. ~Zoe Sugg
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball. ~Billie Jean King
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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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It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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You seek problems because you need their gifts. ~Richard Bach
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Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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One person's craziness is another person's reality. ~Tim Burton
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Recognise.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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As far as I'm concerned, I did'nt dream; ever. ~Theodore Sturgeon
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. ~Miles Teller
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There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. ~David Ogilvy
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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