Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese 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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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian 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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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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