#separates

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#chaff #does #purify #separates #threshing

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. ↗

— John Buchan

#definition #men #rather #separates #snob

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#child #clothes #developed #eight #even

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#abyss #cross #disastrous #discovery #gain

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#gold #like #mud #separates

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. ↗

— Evita Peron

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No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#effectively #exile #hidden #more #others

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#charities #children #directly #donors #going

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. ↗

— Stephen King

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