When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish 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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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Three things see no end. A flower blighted ere it bloomed. A message that was wasted. And a journey that was doomed. ~Mercedes Lackey
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ~James Mooney
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