An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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