Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French 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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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
#quotes #philip-pullman #life #trust

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to. ~Carol Plum Ucci
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite. ~Dan Wells
#quotes #dan-wells #loyalty

A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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