Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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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
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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