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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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quotistLife without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish 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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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese 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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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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