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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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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosEvery beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good. I can't believe I'm saying this. ~Jensen Ackles
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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