Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish 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 superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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