When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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They don't make coats for this kind of cold. ~Ryan Adams
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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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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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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