Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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