No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. ~Benjamin Carson
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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