A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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