The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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