Even a small star shines in the darkness
Finnish Proverb
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Even a small star shines in the darkness.
DANISH PROVERB When darkness is at its darkest, a star shines the brightest.
LOUISE PHILIPPE When the light of a falling star washes away into the oblivion, remember that still it shines somewh...
DEBORAH SIMPSON A light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never overcome it.
JOHN THE EVANGELIST The light shines in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.
BIBLE In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Through the darkness shines your WISE power. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN Truth shines light on darkness by questioning it.
MARIA ERVING John 1:5
"Light shines into the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it
ANONYMOUS It was neither the time, nor the place for a star to shine. For a star shines at night in the sky, n...
AHMAD TALAL ASIF Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
HANS VESTBERG A star does not compete with other stars around it; it just shines.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
ROBERT ALDEN There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle
ROBERT ALDEN It is impossible for darkness to reign in the presence of a star.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The water is the same on both sides of the boat
FINNISH PROVERB If a man knew where he would fall, he would spread straw there first
FINNISH PROVERB God did not create hurry
FINNISH PROVERB Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS Even in the dark clouds, the sun still shines.
SANDEEP PRADHAN In my heart lives a promise to rise to find the brightest star when darkness falls
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN Where there is light there shall be darkness, anything that light shines on it will always cast a sh...
ANTONIO MOODY Fair Venus shines
Even in the eye of day; with sweetest beam
Propitious shines, and shakes a t...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS I have come to hide you,” darkness told the star. “I'm too bright,” the defiant star replied.
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FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER A flower does not fulfill its destiny until it blooms, and a star does not fulfill its destiny until...
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TONI SORENSON I'm a real Swede! In fact, I'm a quarter Finnish.
ALICIA VIKANDER I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though ...
HARRI HOLKERI Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by t...
PETER BENENSON I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standin...
MARIE LU The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for...
LAFCADIO HEARN History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. ...
JOHN BUCHAN 'Star Wars' is on my bucket list. Even if it's just a small walk on, I don't care.
MING-NA WEN Even in rainy seasons the sun still shines don't give up the sun might just shine
PRINCE HOPKINS AMACHREE On a front windshield you may see a small star with fingers coming out, a small star. On a side wind...
CALVIN TAMAYE Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can d...
PETER DIAMANDIS A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding un...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
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FRANCINE RIVERS It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bott...
JOSEPH CONRAD You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Shushtari proverb “Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it’s a hollow walnut shell.�...
FIROOZEH DUMAS King Mickey- "Even in the Darkest of Darkness, there is always a Light".
SHIRO AMANO Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
DEAN KOONTZ The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.
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BIBLE My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.
ANGIE THOMAS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
CHINESE PROVERB You have to remember that Finnish people hate art.
KATI OUTINEN Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.
KAMI GARCIA A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
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BIBLE We will look into the German and Finnish links over the coming weeks.
LIEVE PELLENS Our father was a Finnish man, very reserved. He didn't really talk about feelings.
LEANE ROSS I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me.
AZAR NAFISI A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood
BRANDON SANDERSON A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN "Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
RABINDRANATH TAGORE It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
CONFUCIUS It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To be a star you must shine your own light, follow your own path and don’t worry about the darknes...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Mÿnna tachton gernast spuho somen gelen Emÿna daÿda"
[modern: Minä tahdon k...
CHRISTINE WULFF It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Maanalainen kolahtaa kuin keksilaatikko,
murut töyssähtävät, tee höyryää
enkä min�...
HANNU KANKAANPää Tšernobylin jälkeen… Lasten piirustusnäyttelyssä haikara astelee mustalla kevätpellolla… Al...
SVETLANA ALEKSIJEVITš Train up a child in such a way she or he should go; even when she or he is old she or he will not de...
SANTOSH AVVANNAVAR I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theo...
DENIS DIDEROT The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for t...
NICK CAVE Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than ju...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just one star ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH It is impossible for a star to shine and not get noticed, even in the dark.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.
STEWART STAFFORD Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy tha...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?
FRANCINE RIVERS Fast bind, fast find--
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So shines a good deed in a weary world.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. ...
JOE ABERCROMBIE If you can't do it, just laugh about it instead of blushing or being embarrassed.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes...
SOURCE UNKNOWN To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes...
TERRY PRATCHETT To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at ...
ALISON CROGGON The way the sun shines to every soul,is the same way one persons vision can affect even those withou...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into yo...
NEIL GAIMAN I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For this, i give a remembrance to the baby that did not make it to this world. For although i am who...
GARY F EVANS... luck shines in selective beams
IAN IJH HOWELL A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB Even a small shortfall in the export market can become a price-driving factor.
JAMES ROBB There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
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PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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PROVERB Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
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PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
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PROVERB A good speaker makes a good liar.
PROVERB Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB When at a loss how to go on, cough.
PROVERB Speak when you are spoken to.
PROVERB Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
PROVERB The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
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PROVERB The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
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PROVERB The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
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PROVERB Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
PROVERB What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
PROVERB Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
PROVERB Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
PROVERB How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
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PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
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PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
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PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
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PROVERB Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
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PROVERB Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
PROVERB He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
PROVERB Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
PROVERB Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
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PROVERB Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
PROVERB Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
PROVERB Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
PROVERB When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
PROVERB One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
PROVERB Practice is the best master.
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PROVERB Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
PROVERB Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
PROVERB When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
PROVERB Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
PROVERB There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
PROVERB Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
PROVERB Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
PROVERB Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
PROVERB Why kill time when one can employ it.
PROVERB Forever is a long bargain.
PROVERB The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
PROVERB Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
PROVERB Time and I against any two.
PROVERB The longest day soon comes to an end.
PROVERB Soon enough is well enough.
PROVERB Now is the watchword of the wise.
PROVERB Lost time is never found again.
PROVERB Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
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PROVERB Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
PROVERB In teaching others we teach ourselves.
PROVERB He who does not research has nothing to teach.
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PROVERB He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
PROVERB No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
PROVERB Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
PROVERB Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
PROVERB Who has a trade may go anywhere.
PROVERB No one was ever lost on a straight road.
PROVERB Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
PROVERB He that falls by himself never cries.
PROVERB More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
PROVERB Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
PROVERB That which proves too much, proves nothing!
PROVERB When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
PROVERB If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
PROVERB The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
PROVERB Never say die.
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PROVERB If you wish for peace be ready for war.
PROVERB When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
PROVERB Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
PROVERB Peace with a club in hand is war.
PROVERB If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
PROVERB Rome was not built in a day.
PROVERB Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
PROVERB Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
PROVERB Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
PROVERB Patience is the key to paradise.
PROVERB There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
PROVERB Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
PROVERB Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
PROVERB That which is escaped now is pain to come.
PROVERB A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
PROVERB Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
PROVERB It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
PROVERB Riches have wings.
PROVERB A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
PROVERB As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
PROVERB You can't take it with you when you go.
PROVERB After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
PROVERB To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
PROVERB The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
PROVERB Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
PROVERB Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
PROVERB No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
PROVERB The gods sell all things at a fair price.
PROVERB Something you don't want is dear at any price.
PROVERB We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
PROVERB Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
PROVERB Necessity unites.
PROVERB A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
PROVERB It is the truth that irritates a person.
PROVERB If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
PROVERB Time tries truth.
PROVERB Tell the truth and then run.
PROVERB Truth is the daughter of time.
PROVERB Truth fears nothing but concealment.
PROVERB Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
PROVERB Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
PROVERB Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
PROVERB The Devil finds work for idle hands.
PROVERB The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
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