A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian 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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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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