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Funniest Proverbs and Quotations - 199
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Joseph Conrad
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
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Saint Cyprian
There is no salvation outside the church.
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Cynthia Ozick
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
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David Brin
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
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William Faulkner
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Maya Angelou
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
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Lewis Mumford
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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Nathaniel Branden
Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Pablo Neruda
Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.
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John Dryden
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Thomas Jefferson
The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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