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Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.
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If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world...
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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superi...
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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
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There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are bey...
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The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.
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Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but t...
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Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but...
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You can never enter the same river twice.
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One "no" averts seventy evils
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The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment
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You don't stop dancing from growing old, you grow old from stopping to dance
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To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak
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Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings
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Better to dig one deep well than 10 shallow ones.
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Anger ends in cruelty.
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A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows.
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Even a cat is a liion in her own lair
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Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny
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The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with gen...
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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty wi...
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Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults
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Don't let grass grow on the path of friendship
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You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.
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Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins
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Separation secures manifest friendship
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To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great
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Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, dete...
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf
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There is nothing so eloquent as a rattlesnake's tail
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To carry his load without resting, not to be bothered by heat or cold and always be content: these t...
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I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.
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A smile you sent, will always return
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You can only lean against that which resists.
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A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved
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An arch never sleeps.
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Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun
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Large desire is endless poverty.
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best ...
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Don't just cross a river--cross it bearing fire!.
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When the devil leaves, heaven comes in
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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.
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Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
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No one was ever lost on a straight road.
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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey,...
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Conquer a man who never gives by gifts; Subdue untruthful men by truthfulness; Vanquish an angry man...
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Great anger is more destructive than the sword
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No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.
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What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for.
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No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves.
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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the...
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Only after the last tree has been cut down,
only after the last river has ben poisoned,
only a...
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He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it, is as guilty as the wrongd...
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
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Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
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It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest.
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What the people believe is true.
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Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.
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Many have fallen with the bottle in their hand.
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Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.
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When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.
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Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosityin the hearts of the young.
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Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.
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Pray to understand what man has forgotten.
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Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.
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If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
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A good chief gives, he does not take.
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A rocky vineyard does not need a prayer, but a pick axe.
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnakes tail.
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I have been to the end of the earth,
I have been to the end of the waters,
I have been to the ...
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Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may ...
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Every animal knows more than you do.
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White men have too many chiefs.
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Talk to your children while they are eating;
what you say will stay even after you are gone.
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.
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When a fox walks lame, the old rabbit jumps.
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A starving man will eat with the wolf.
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The coward shoots with shut eyes.
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An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life:
A fight is going on inside me, he said to th...
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We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creat...
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Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
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We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
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Truth does not happen, it just is.
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The supreme law of the land is the Great Spirit's law, not man's law.
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No answer is also an answer.
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A people without faith in themselves cannot survive.
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Work hard, keep the ceremonies, live peaceably, and unite your hearts.
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In age, talk; in childhood, tears.
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A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
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The greatest strength is gentleness.
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A good soldier is a poor scout.
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Our first teacher is our own heart.
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Judge not by the eye but by the heart.
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Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep.
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If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.
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It is good to tell one's heart.
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All who have died are equal.
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Treachery darkens the chain of friendship, but truth makes it brighter than ever.
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Never sit while your seniors stand.
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Knowledge that is not used is abused.
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One rain does not make a crop.
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You already possess everything necessary to become great.
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Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it.
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Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.
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The only things that need the protection of men are the things of men, not the things of the spirit.
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We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
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There is no death, only a change of worlds.
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The rain falls on the just and the unjust.
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Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
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All dreams spin out from the same web.
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The one who tells the stories rules the world.
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Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for yo...
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One finger cannot lift a pebble.
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The rainbow is a sign from Him who is in all things.
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In death, I am born.
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Man has responsiblity, not power.
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They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.
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The way of the troublemaker is thorny.
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God gives us each a song.
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Walk beside...
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A man must make his own arrows.
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Silence has so much meaning.
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After dark all cats are leopards.
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Walk tall as the trees,
live strong as the mountains,
be gentle as the spring winds,
kee...
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Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves.
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Before eating, always take a little time to thank the food.
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When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.
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If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.
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Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it.
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All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them.
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Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
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Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
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Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.
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The weakness of the enemy makes our strength.
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Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world...
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Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark.
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Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
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A danger foreseen is half-avoided.
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It is easy to be brave from a distance.
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Ask questions from you heart and you will be answered from the heart.
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The bird who has eaten cannot fly with the bird that is hungry.
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Respect the gift and the giver.
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Misfortunes do not flourish on one path, they grow everywhere.
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A hungry stomach makes a short prayer.
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Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.
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Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.
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Cherish youth, but trust old age.
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Sharing and giving are the ways of God.
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We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky.
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Each person is his own judge.
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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Show respect for all men, but grovel to none.
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We are made from Mother Earth and we go back to Mother Earth.
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It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace.
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When a favor is shown to a white man, he feels it in his head and the tongue speaks out; when a kind...
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With all things and in all things,we are relatives.
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Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.
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The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
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There are many good moccasin tracks along the trail of a straight arrow.
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A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.
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The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs.
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He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
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Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, are going to fall into the river.
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world...
INDIAN SAYING We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
HAIDA INDIAN SAYING When a human being dies, there is a bridge they must cross to enter into Heaven. At the head of the ...
AN INDIAN LEGEND Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.
SIOUX INDIAN PRAYER We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
SIOUX INDIAN PRAYER A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
PROVERB To know and not to do is not to know
PROVERB Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB Silence implies consent.
PROVERB The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
If you like it...
PROVERB Shame is worse than death.
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If you're going to live by the river, make friends with the crocodile

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