If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. ~Carrie Fisher
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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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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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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