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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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proverbiosA woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
#quotes #dodinsky #friendship
In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
#quotes #robert-louis-stevenson #seasons #nature
Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
#quotes #richard-owen #nature #charles-darwin