I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
#proverbs #jewish-poverbs #wisdom #motivation
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. ~Martin Van Buren
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look; that healthy equals beautiful. ~Victoria Principal
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right winger. ~Robert Winston
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I like to play music; play guitar; I love that. Play some golf in the summer. Just relax, enjoy the summer. That's nice. ~Henrik Lundqvist
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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