Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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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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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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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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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
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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