Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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