The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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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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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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