Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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A thief believes everybody steals. ~Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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