A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~Phil Jackson
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Do not try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you. ~Mooji
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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If you want to know how much I miss you, try to catch rain drops. The ones you catch is how much you miss me, and the ones you miss is how much I miss you.
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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