From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person. ~Alana Stewart
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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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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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people. ~Tia Carrere
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. ~Martin Van Buren
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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