A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you're not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you're beautiful, just the way you are. ~Candace Bushnell
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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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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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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The people of Chicago are a proud people; and for good reason. ~Jane Byrne
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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