If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin 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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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. ~Bethenny Frankel
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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