When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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