A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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God bless us everyone! Said Tiny Tim, the last of all. ~Charles Dickens
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. ~Laozi
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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