Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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