A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Science is changing. God's Word does not change! ~Adrian Rogers
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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