As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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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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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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