A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature. ~Graham Cooke
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid. ~Rafael Nadal
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French 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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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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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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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