A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. ~Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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Your birthday will always be remembered in a special way, because you have brought so much happiness into the lives of those who are close to you. Happy birthday to you!
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ~Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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