Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.


Korean Proverb

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Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
PROVERB
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

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ARTHUR KOESTLER
What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a tho...
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ARTHUR KOESTLER
The fox is one hundred years old its' child is one hundred and ten.
GREEK PROVERB
My major influence was my ten years older sister.
WILLA FORD
I think the next ten years will be even more fun than the last ten years.
JEFF BYRD
I have more influence now than when I had the power.
GOUGH WHITLAM
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
MERLE SHAIN
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
MERLE SHAIN
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
HAROLD COFFIN
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christia...
JEFF BURROUGHS
One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.
MORRIE SCHWARTZ
The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Grea...
NOSTRADAMUS
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born
DEAN INGE
Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times hig...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
The ultimate "computer," our own brain, uses only ten watts of power -- one-tenth the energy consume...
PAUL VALERY
My daughter likes Korean drama more than I do.
PENG LIYUAN
A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse lasts three dogs, and a man lasts three...
GERMAN PROVERB
Leadership is more ? if not much more ? influence, rather than position.
JOHN MAXWELL
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE
One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters. [One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters...
GEORGE HERBERT
...I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people...
JOHN GEDDES
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
OSCAR WILDE
A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
And girls are much more mature.” Eve nodded wisely. “So you’re about ten years older than Shan...
RACHEL CAINE
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING
You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get ...
CHARLES MENGEL ALLEN
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
LAURENCE STERNE
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democrac...
JOHN ADAMS
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy ...
JOHN ADAMS
It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL
A smile will gain you ten more years of life
CHINESE PROVERBS
In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined.
BRUCE ALBERTS
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING
I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.
WALT DISNEY COMPANY
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
GEORGE HERBERT
Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of the...
JEFF ZASLOW
Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of ther...
OSCAR WILDE
It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some t...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies
LAURENCE STERNE
Whereas in past years there has been a hundred dollar deductible and then you have to subtract ten p...
DAN BOONE
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
EURIPIDES
If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is ...
CONFUCIUS
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twent...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we we...
ROBERT FROST
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Love—such a keen mystery prone to pierce and shatter the delicate heart.  Yet it possesses more s...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.
KOREAN PROVERB
If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.
KOREAN PROVERB
Carve the peg by looking at the hole
KOREAN PROVERB
The bad plowman quarrels with his ox
KOREAN PROVERB
Even children of the same mother look different
KOREAN PROVERB
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut
KOREAN PROVERB
Put off for one day and ten days will pass
KOREAN PROVERB
Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important
KOREAN PROVERB
A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out
KOREAN PROVERB
A kitchen knife cannot carve its own handle
KOREAN PROVERB
Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles
KOREAN PROVERB
The same dress is indecent ten years before its time; daring one year before its time; chic (contemp...
JAMES LAVER
Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of th...
EDWARD BACH
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
GEORGE ADE
The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tic...
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloqu...
WASHINGTON IRVING
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Failures could kill our dreams ten times; fears could kill our dreams ten times hundred times.
JOHN B. BEJO
A tear shed can say more than a hundred words spoken.
UNKNOWN
A black lie is more acceptable than a hundred white lies
MARIA MAYLINE GRANT
It's better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb.
JOHN GOTTI
More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already drive...
THOMAS KING
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.
CRYSTAL WOODS
Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.
BAE DOONA
Power is always a corrupting influence.
CHARLES DANCE
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
THOMAS PAINE
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests
THOMAS PAINE
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
FRANCIS PICABIA
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-ni...
W. WIRT
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-ni...
WILLIAM WIRT
It is all new and all the same. A hundred years. A day. Ten thousand moons. For them, each day indee...
LORNA JANE COOK
Leadership is more than influence. It is inspiration.
LALIT BHOJWANI
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
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His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, mo...
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There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into oppositi...
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No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are,...
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No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are,...
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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.
ANDRE B. BURUCH
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
JOHN BURROUGHS
In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is sti...
FRANZ BOAS
Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this progra...
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The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.
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Carve the peg by looking at the hole
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The bad plowman quarrels with his ox
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Even children of the same mother look different
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Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut
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Put off for one day and ten days will pass
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Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important
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A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out
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A kitchen knife cannot carve its own handle
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Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles
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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
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From small beginnings come great things.
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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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One is rated by others as he rates himself.
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Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
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A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
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It is better to be safe than sorry.
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Better to be safe than sorry.
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Kings have many ears and eyes.
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A soft answer turneth away wrath.
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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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A good speaker makes a good liar.
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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
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When at a loss how to go on, cough.
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Speak when you are spoken to.
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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
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The less people think the more they talk.
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Speak little and to the purpose.
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Speak and the man shall be shown.
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The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
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A little body often harbors a great soul.
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Life without a friend is death without a witness.
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What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
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Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
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Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
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He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
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Rest breeds rust.
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Respect starts with yourself.
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
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An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
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Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
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Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
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Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
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Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
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By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
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The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
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Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
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A wicked book cannot repent.
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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
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Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
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Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
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There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
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Live to live and you will learn to live.
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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
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No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
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What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
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He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
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We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
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One of these days, is none of these days.
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Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
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Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
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Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
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Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
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None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
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No one can pray well, but those who live well.
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Short prayers reach heaven.
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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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Practice is the best master.
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Force without forecast is to little avail.
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He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
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A poor man is all schemes.
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When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
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Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
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There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
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Why kill time when one can employ it.
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Forever is a long bargain.
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The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
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Time and I against any two.
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The longest day soon comes to an end.
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Soon enough is well enough.
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Now is the watchword of the wise.
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Lost time is never found again.
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Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
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In teaching others we teach ourselves.
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He who does not research has nothing to teach.
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He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
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No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
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Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
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Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
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Who has a trade may go anywhere.
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No one was ever lost on a straight road.
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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
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He that falls by himself never cries.
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More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
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Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
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That which proves too much, proves nothing!
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When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
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If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
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The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
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Never say die.
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If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
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Peace with a club in hand is war.
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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
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Rome was not built in a day.
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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
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Patience is the key to paradise.
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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
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Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
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That which is escaped now is pain to come.
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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
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Riches have wings.
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
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Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
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No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
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The gods sell all things at a fair price.
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Something you don't want is dear at any price.
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We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
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Necessity unites.
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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
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It is the truth that irritates a person.
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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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Time tries truth.
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Tell the truth and then run.
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