The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways. ~Ansel Elgort
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I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes. ~Joan Collins
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish 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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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~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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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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