To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. ~John Bunyan
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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God bless us everyone! Said Tiny Tim, the last of all. ~Charles Dickens
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
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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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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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