Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English 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 fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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I am horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. ~Sam Trammell
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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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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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ~Nnamdi Azikiwe
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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