A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun. ~Hafez
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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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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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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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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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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