I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to. ~Rodney Dangerfield
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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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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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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