The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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