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"689 Proverbs & Adages Quotes

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Above Refuse Victim
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The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

Character Haste Hurry More
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I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.

Come Swear Taller
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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Become Combine Dictionary Evil
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
Always Forest Happens Must
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We need to ensure that our children sit on the right kind of cushion, so they don’t get injured.

Need Children Sit Cushion
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Memory Left Happens Completely
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A desperately sick man will seek help from any doctor.

Doctor Help Sick Man
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When leaders fail, followers pay the price.

Price Pay Followers Fail
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Everyone Glass Had Slaughterhouses
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Fly Swatted Secure Lights
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Prejudice Speak Mechanical instincts
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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Tress falls Forest Hear Sound
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Don't bottom fish.
Bottom Fish
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A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

Sit Best Cake Bad
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The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

Mouse One hole Taken
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You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

Lose Fly Trout
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The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

Buyer Hundred eyes Seller
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Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Speak Debts Pay them
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Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

Many kiss Hand Wish
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Punishment is lame, but it comes.

Punishment Lame Comes
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Living well is the best revenge.
Living well Best revenge
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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

One father Hundred sons
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From a little spark may burst a flame.

Burst Flame Little May
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A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

Beast Know Nearer Man
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience

Due Impatience Intuition Logic
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Normal is the average of deviance.

Normal Average
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It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

Man Obedient Master Word
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Everybody Sets out Do something Does
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Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

Doubt Everything Explains Nothing
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Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Courage End Lose Moment
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As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Cannot Down Him Hold
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Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Across Because Brushing Cheek
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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

About Away Best Collapse
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

Anyone Cat Considers Dealt
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea

Cats Dogs Get Idea
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Beauty Flower Gather Her
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Envy Flower Need Numerous
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down

Around Before Boy Dog
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake

Back Baffled Better Break
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Never take an elevator in city hall.

Never take Elevator
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
Dangerous thoughts Thinking
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Age Crystal Deemed Dew
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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

Eight Fellow Girl Him
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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought

Sudden Thought
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Artist Confidence Consolation Doubt
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Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

Say Sure Those Wisest
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A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Debt Made Promise Unpaid
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It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Ahead Grain Grain Of Sand Mountain
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Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer.

Insecure Joke Line More
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