Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is much better for the Word to get into us. ~David J. Stewart
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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