Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish 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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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~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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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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