When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
-Cherokee
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Laws are for the lesser man, Right conduct for the greater man
-Chinese
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. -Mark Twain
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Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same. -Crow
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The nail that sticks up will be hammered down. -Japanese
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No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. -Ashanti
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Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
-Ben Franklin
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet
-Emerson
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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. -Blake
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It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace. -Shenandoah
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A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections. -Chinese
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. -Mark Twain
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -Emerson
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
-Ben Franklin
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -Thomas Jefferson
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Emerson
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Peace comes within the souls of men, when they realize their oneness with the Universe, when they realize it is really everywhere... it is within each one of us. -Black Elk, Lakota Medicine Man
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A thorn defends the rose hurting only those who would steal the blossom -Chinese
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All who have died are equal -Comanche
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Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. -Blackfoot
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. -Chinese
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All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. -Emerson
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. -Ben Franklin
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.-Spanish
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. -Chinese
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. -Emerson
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. -Thomas Jefferson
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. -Welsh
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. -Chinese
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As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
Bible - Proverbs 26:11
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new.
-Spanish proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. -Yiddish
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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
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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
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Who knows most speaks least. -Spanish
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A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Bible - Proverbs 15:1
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When the fool is told a proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him. -Ashanti
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A person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it. -Chinese
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. -Latin
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. -Spanish
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Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. -French Proverb
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Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to This Day. -Sanskrit Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
- African Proverb
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and my personal favorite;

The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day. -Proverbs 4:18