The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese 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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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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