A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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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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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~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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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you care about the people you work with then you work harder. ~Kristine Lilly
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