I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English Proverb
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~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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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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