Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. ~Mel Brooks
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~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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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch 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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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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