Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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