God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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