Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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