I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. ~Nate Silver
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~D. H. Lawrence
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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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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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that, women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. ~Louise Otto-Peters
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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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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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