A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian 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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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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