The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese 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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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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