Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish 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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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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