Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water. ~Jim Costa
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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