From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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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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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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All actors are looking for that role that is going to define who they are. When it happens, it is a good thing. ~Jeffrey Pierce
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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