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 | "A proverb is one man"s wit and all men"s wisdom." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they
begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true." | |
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Herbert George Wells
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| "Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for
he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "Crime never sleeps." | |
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Proverb
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| "Diplomat ? a person who can tell you to go to blazes so pleasantly
that you are raring to go." | |
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The Big Horn
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| "Falling drops will at last wear away stone." | |
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Titus Lucretius Carus
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| "From mistakes of others a wise man correcteth his own." | |
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Publilius Syrus
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| "Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow." | |
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Mary St. Leger Kingsley
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| "If you would be good, first believe you are bad." | |
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Epictetus
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| "In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." | |
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William Blake
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| "It is truly said, He who would please all and himself, too,
Undertakes what he cannot do." | |
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Ching Chow
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| "Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments,
the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "Man ? that irrational creature who is always looking for home
atmosphere in a hotel, and hotel service around home." | |
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The Bug
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| "No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue." | |
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Sir Philip Sidney
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| "Philosophy is an act of living." | |
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Plutarch
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| "Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of
the intuitions." | |
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Douglas Jerrold
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| "Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly." | |
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Solon
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| "SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and
colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head.
Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life
and light." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "THE TWO GENTLEMEN of VERONA, act 1, scene 2: They love the least
that let men know their love." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are
perpetuated by quotations." | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules." | |
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Rupert Brooke
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| "There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are
all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all
sciences." | |
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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| "There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Thought tends to collect in pools." | |
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Wallace Stevens
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| "Time is a file that wears and makes no noise." | |
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H. G. Bohn
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| "To do so no more is the truest repentance." | |
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Martin Luther
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| "To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone." | |
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John Ray
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| "Trouble springs from idleness." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "True friendship is a plant of slow growth." | |
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George Washington
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| "War is death?s feast." | |
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George Herbert
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| "We all have been for all time...and we shall be for all time? As the
spirit of our mortal body wanders on in childhood, and youth and old age,
the Spirit wanders on to A new body: of this the sage has no
doubts." | |
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Bhagavad-Gita
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| "When you think everything is hopeless A little ray of light comes
from somewhere!" | |
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Unknown
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| "White lies are ushers to black ones." | |
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Captain Frederick Marryat
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