Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score. ~Frank Leahy
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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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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Three things see no end. A flower blighted ere it bloomed. A message that was wasted. And a journey that was doomed. ~Mercedes Lackey
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Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. ~Allison Scagliotti
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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