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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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. ~Mason Cooley
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world. ~Frederick Lenz
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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