When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family. ~Joe Scarborough
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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