A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese 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 good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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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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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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There will be many times in your lives; at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up; when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed. ~Julie Andrews
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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