And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching "Coronation Street." ~Amelia Warner
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite. ~David Coleman
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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We can't afford as a nation; not because of money but because of our social fabric; to have large numbers of people who are not working. ~Donna Shalala
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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