Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth. ~Suze Orman
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies. ~Charles XII of Sweden
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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