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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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life. ~Steve Wozniak
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I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats. ~James Harden
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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Your prosperity will only grow as fast as you do. ~Randy Gage
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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A thief believes everybody steals. ~Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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