Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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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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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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