He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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