Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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