Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It is just a weakness that we human beings have for control, we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ~Dave Davies
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. ~Dick Cheney
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. ~Benjamin Carson
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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