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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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proverbios
Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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quotistWhere there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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