It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you. ~Jim Palmer
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African 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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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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