The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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Music is the eye of the ear. ~Thomas Draxe
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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