Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is much better for the Word to get into us. ~David J. Stewart
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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