Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ~Sun Tzu
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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