The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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