A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ~Julia Barr
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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