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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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quotistProverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies. ~Charles XII of Sweden
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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