Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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