Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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