We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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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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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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