A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German 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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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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