Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~Phil Jackson
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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