He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. ~Proverb
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision. ~Charles Stanley
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride. ~Elizabeth Chadwick
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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