A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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