Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life. I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't. I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense. ~Randy Houser
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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