A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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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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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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In a relationship you have to open yourself up. ~Neil LaBute
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. ~Susan Cain
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out. ~Yelawolf
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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