Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosIf I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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quotistDo not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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