Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. ~Albert Einstein
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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