If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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