Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel. ~Heidi Baker
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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