Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different. ~Mike Pence
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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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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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
#quotes #matthew-henry #human

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
#quotes #caroline-knapp #shyness #nature #interaction

There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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