What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese 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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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~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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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems. ~Edward Snowden
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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