A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish 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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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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If you want to know how much I miss you, try to catch rain drops. The ones you catch is how much you miss me, and the ones you miss is how much I miss you.
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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