A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
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Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it. ~Bikram Choudhury
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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