A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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