Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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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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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen 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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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish 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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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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