The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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