If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~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 bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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