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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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese 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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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. ~Nate Silver
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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