Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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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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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~Emily Dickinson
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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