You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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