What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German 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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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese 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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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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