Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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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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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease. ~Jim Rohn
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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