Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
#proverbs #welsh-proverbs #grandchildren

Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature. ~Graham Cooke
#quotes #graham-cooke #god #evil

I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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