Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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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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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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