A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know. ~Hunter Hayes
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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