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 fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on "Hollyoaks." ~Nathalie Emmanuel
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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If you care about the people you work with then you work harder. ~Kristine Lilly
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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I will never ever sell Neverland. ~Michael Jackson
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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