A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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A thief believes everybody steals. ~Proverb
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching. ~Steve Waugh
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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