The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~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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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good. I can't believe I'm saying this. ~Jensen Ackles
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any better acquainted with himself. He knew that if he wanted to show his talents to best advantage, he needed to strike sparks off other people to fan the flames of warmth and exuberance in his heart. On his own he was frosty, no use to himself at all, like a match left lying in its box. ~Stefan Zweig
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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