When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel. ~Heidi Baker
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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