To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth; at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation. ~Eileen Claussen
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