A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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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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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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