And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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Achilles absent was Achilles still! ~Homer
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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