"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

Gibran, Kahlil on pain
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"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights."

Gibran, Kahlil on silence
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"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."

Gibran, Kahlil on simplicity
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"Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

Gibran, Kahlil on beauty
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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Gibran, Kahlil on suffering
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"The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness."

Gibran, Kahlil on teacher
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"And let the winds of the heavens dance between you."

Gibran, Kahlil on dance and dancing
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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hairs"

Gibran, Kahlil on environment   

"The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things."

La Bruyere, Jean De on criticism   

"If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father."

La Bruyere, Jean De on crime and criminals   

"Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker"

La Bruyere, Jean De on time
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"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest."

La Bruyere, Jean De on friends and friendship   

"The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished."

La Bruyere, Jean De on law and lawyers   

"There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live."

La Bruyere, Jean De on life   

"If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other."

La Bruyere, Jean De on life
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"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."

La Bruyere, Jean De on love
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"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

La Bruyere, Jean De on miracles
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"Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit."

La Bruyere, Jean De on ridicule
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"A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others."

La Bruyere, Jean De on secrets
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"First deserve then desire."

Proverb on desire
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"Attack is the best form of defense."

Proverb on defense
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"Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt."

Proverb on debt
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"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."

Proverb on death
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"If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done."

Proverb on age and aging
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"Never find fault with the absent."

Proverb on absence
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"You cannot be lost on a road that is straight."

Proverb on direction
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"It is better to run back than run the wrong way."

Proverb on direction
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"When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick."

Proverb on failure
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"Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains."

Proverb on fights and fighting
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"Many lick before they bite."

Proverb on flattery
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"The time to make friends is before you need them."

Proverb on friends and friendship
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"To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue."

Proverb on courtesy
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"Love is like war, easy to begin, hard to end"

Proverb on
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"Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure."

Proverb on travel
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"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first."

Bailey, Pearl on change
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"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it."

Bailey, Pearl on past
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"A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing."

Bailey, Pearl on worth   

"Most plans are just inaccurate predictions."

Bayol, Ben on planning
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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