Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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