To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German 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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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature. ~Zeno of Citium
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ~Hermann Hesse
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