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Hannah Whitall Smith

God stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save ourselves from fatal falling. Read your trials in this light, and see if your wings are being developed.

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Italian Proverbs

One good word quenches more heat than a bucket of water.

Thinking | Wickedness |

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Italian Proverbs

That that comes of a cat will catch mice.

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Italian Proverbs

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

Ability | Reason | Story | Thinking |

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Italian Proverbs

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

Action | Man | Prejudice | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

There is no helping him who will not be advised.

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Italian Proverbs

When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

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Italian Proverbs

What shall I say when it is better to say nothing?

Body | Men | Mind | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

Voice of one, voice of none.

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Italian Proverbs

When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

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Italian Proverbs

When wine sinks, words swim.

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Italian Proverbs

There never was a shoe however handsome that did not become an ugly slipper.

Justice | System |

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Italian Proverbs

Who takes an eel by the tail and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing.

Love |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

But it is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Don't ever laugh at live Dragons, Bilbo you fool!

Change | Reason | Relationship |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief, that can rise to delight, that, thank Heaven, nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of And£ril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. 'Elendil!' he cried. 'I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar, the Elfstone, D£nadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil's son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me or thwart me? Choose swiftly!

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