We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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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 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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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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Hope is a risk that must be run. ~Georges Bernanos
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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