A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba 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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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome. ~David Belle
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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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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