And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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You would think that Freddy Couples' Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time. ~Fuzzy Zoeller
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not. ~Jane Austen
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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