A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosThe hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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quotistA smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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