As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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