For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese 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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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
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