No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role. ~Lauren Willig
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. ~Francis Schaeffer
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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