Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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