I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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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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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~Anita Desai
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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