Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ~Joseph Prince
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~David Bailey
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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