Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. ~Annie Leibovitz
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. ~Max Lucado
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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Align yourself with outstanding strategic partners. ~Carol Roth
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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