With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen 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 growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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