May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian 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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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is much better for the Word to get into us. ~David J. Stewart
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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