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Happiness – a realized necessity.
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Human – special kind of angels, who cut their own wings soon after own birth.
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Health – something that is not felt until it vanishes; something that, having vanished, can be restored back only with hard work; something, whose vanishing makes lives of ones similar to never-ending torment, and lives of others – similar to breakthrough.
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Life – a process, similar with mountain racing : others show you one third of a path upwards, two thirds of remained path you rise yourself; and when descent time comes – for hold your breath for an instant, and then rush downwards, all the way mentally begging the God to help you not to fall down on such speed, and thus the way downwards is same in length as the way upwards, but requires tens times less. And when you have safely finished your descent – you have already completely forgotten details of the first third of climbing upwards and descending downwards, but cannot forget details of own two thirds climbing uphill.
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Democracy – a rule of miserable over the blessed.
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Human’s essence – what is remained when last hope disappears.
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Kindness – the ability to substitute a second cheek after a blow on the first and say “Stop it”.
Love – the ability to intercept a hand, trying to give a slap in the face, and say “Stop it”.
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Modesty – a springboard for wisdom.
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Misfortune – what remains when the happiness is forgotten.
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City – a home for those with gregarious mind.
Nature – a home for those with lonely mind.
Prison – a home for those with hardened mind.
Church – a home for those with aged mind.
Life – a home for those voluntary mad.
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Success – a consequence of the fact that you were in time.
Failure – a consequence of the fact that you didn’t want to be in time.
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Publicity – is when you are written about in newspapers.
Popularity – is when you are spoken about.
Fame – is when they can’t help speaking and writing about you.
Modesty – is when you understand all senselessness of publicity, popularity and fame.
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Trust – what goes before belief.
Belief – what follows trust.
Experience – what remains after unjustified trustfulness and beliefs.
03.10.2010
Proverbs
Not knowing the ford, do not confuse the issue.
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Soon the fairy tale flies, life moves slower to sunrise.
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Through the dirt on foreign horse back to dearest home, of course.
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One, two, three, then add some stench - one is master of shortchange.
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Every pig’s in love with shed.
To ruin life each idler’s glad.
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Every law has just two sides.
Made for rich, for beggar - bites.
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Russia is a gentle soul.
Each day’s milked with a bowl.
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Early to rise and early to bed - those with no wife will appreciate that.
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Word is a sparrow? No.
Have taken off? Watch flow!
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Feeding wolf, just keep in thought - it will eat, but yelp will not.
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From the work you dare crawl? Work’s not wolf, won’t ever howl.
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From all imaginable and known to humankind medicines the greatest one, being incredibly effective and having no side effects, only good nature stands above all-others.
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Almost everyone dreams of himself as being exclusive in this life, yet even the most exclusive ones are being excluded from this life once.
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It’s incredibly easy to become a man, when you have idea of how he should look like. It’s incredibly difficult to become a man, when you know what it should be like.
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There are no insolvable problems - simply there are problems which no one ever seriously tried to solve.
There are no insoluble problems - simply there are problems which no one ever desires to solve.
There are no problems at all - there is simply always something, worth improving.
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When we are happy with our beloved ones - we call it love.
When we are respected and reckoned with - we call it love.
When they are ready for a heroic deed for our sake - we call it love.
But who will call a feat of love the ability to pass through all trials and hardship of life, still remaining immensely grateful to it?
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The more we love the woman -
The stronger suffer then,
If suddenly are doomed
To change the marriage’s plan.
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The life is good for wings, not foot.
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Crawled from mud - yet still not glad.
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Everything must be beautiful in a man.
The face, eyes, ears … and especially his life and death.
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From old sin you are not free - yet it’s better than new three.
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