What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~Zach Johnson
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first. ~CJ Roberts
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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