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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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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban 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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quotistHe who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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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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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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