Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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