prOverbs, sayings & wOrds Of wisdOm

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You must judge a man by the work of his hands.
African proverb

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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...

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Joseph Priestley

(1733-1804) English theologian and scientist

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A wise one!
Thank you Med!
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One joy dispels a hundred cares.

Confucius
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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) American political leader

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The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), former first lady (1933–1945), advocate for the

rights of women, the poor, minorities, and the disadvantaged

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"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

Robert Frost

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Abscence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Comte De Bussy-Rabutin

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

oscar wilde

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"Vivre est la plus rare au monde. La plupart des gens existent, c'est tout."
Oscar Wilde

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

W.R. Wallace

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Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of 'you' to the world.

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Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

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Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Jean de la Bruyere, French moralist

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) American educator

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826) American president

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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

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Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826) American president

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

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Leonardo da Vinci

(1452-1519)
Italian artist, writer, inventor, and philosopher

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

Adolph Hitler (1889-1945)

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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

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Ellen Glasgow
(1874-1945) American writer

He who stops being better stops being good.

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Lord Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) English Lord Protector

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

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Sigmund Freud
(1856-1939) Austrian psychiatrist

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

Sigmund Freud

"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"

George bernard shaw

"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."

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George bernard shaw

Do what is right, come what may.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Italian writer

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

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Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) English writer

In Order tO cOmpOse, all yOu need tO dO is remember a tune that nObOdy else has thOught Of.

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Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
German composer

Success is a public affair.
Failure is a private funeral.

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Rosalind Russell (1908-1976)

U.S. actor

He who has never hoped can never despair.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

There are two tragedies in life:

One is not to get your heart's desire.The other is to get it.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

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