When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ~Benjamin Netanyahu
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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