If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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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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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese 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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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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