Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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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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You seek problems because you need their gifts. ~Richard Bach
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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