Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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You seek problems because you need their gifts. ~Richard Bach
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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