A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate, often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them. ~Mark Driscoll
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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