Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish 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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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish 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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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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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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