Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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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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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
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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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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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