All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~Stephen Charnock
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact. ~Tinker Hatfield
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish 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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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If you didn't watch "The Shield," you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch "The Shield." ~Timothy Simons
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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