A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. ~Francis Schaeffer
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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