Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish 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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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan 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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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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LIFE equals Live In Full Effect! ~Joseph Simmons
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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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 superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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