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| Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Behind an able man there are always other able men. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Climb mountains to see lowlands. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Practice no vice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Take a second look... It costs you nothing. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| If you always give You will always have. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Those who have free seats at a play hiss first. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Judge not the horse by his saddle. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Use power to curb power. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Never write a letter while you are angry. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| He who hurries can not walk with dignity. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if ypu employ him, don't suspect him. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Do not employ handsome servants. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| The palest ink is better than the best memory. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| If you bow at all, bow low. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| When you drink the water, remember the spring. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says 'It's a girl.' |
Shirley Chisholm |
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| I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. |
Shirley Chisholm |
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| Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater. |
William Hazlitt |
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| Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute. |
William Hazlitt |
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| Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern -- why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be |
William Hazlitt |
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| To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. |
William Hazlitt |
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| Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune. |
William Hazlitt |
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| We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. |
William Hazlitt |
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| Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others |
William Hazlitt |
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| To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. |
William Hazlitt |
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| The more we do, the more we can do. |
William Hazlitt |
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| If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. |
William Hazlitt |
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| If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. |
William Hazlitt |
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| Prejudice is the child of ignorance. |
William Hazlitt |
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| No really great man ever thought himself so. |
William Hazlitt |
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| There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable. |
William Hazlitt |
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| Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. |
William Hazlitt |
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| The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves. |
William Hazlitt |
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| Those who can command themselves command others. |
William Hazlitt |
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| The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires. |
William Hazlitt |
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| If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators. |
William Hazlitt |
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| First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily. |
William Hazlitt |
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| Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. |
William Hazlitt |
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| When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. |
William Hazlitt |
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| The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. |
William Hazlitt |
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| Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. |
William Hazlitt |
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| Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. |
William Hazlitt |
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| Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. |
Nora Ephron |
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| If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. |
Nora Ephron |
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| A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. |
Maxwell Planck |
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| News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. |
Gene Fowler |
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| Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. |
Gene Fowler |
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| Men are not against you they are merely for themselves. |
Gene Fowler |
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| Everything has been figured out, except how to live. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
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| One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
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| Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
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| Hell is other people. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
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| When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
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| One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
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| In love, one and one are one. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
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| A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
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| Existence precedes and rules essence. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
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