Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish 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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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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