Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~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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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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