Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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proverbiosIt 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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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do. ~Simon Sinek
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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