If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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Music is the eye of the ear. ~Thomas Draxe
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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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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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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