He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it. ~Bikram Choudhury
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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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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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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