It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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