And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~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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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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