"Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing."

Proverb on enemies
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"Do not employ handsome servants."

Proverb, Chinese on hiring   

"What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire."

Proverb on eyes
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"The eye is the mirror of the soul."

Proverb on eyes
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"Don't cross the bridge till you come to it."

Proverb on expectation
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"Your friend has a friend; don't tell him."

Proverb, Chinese on gossip
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"There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn."

Proverb, Chinese on goodness
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"When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh."

Proverb, Chinese on the future
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"With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough."

Proverb, Chinese on friends and friendship
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"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching."

Proverb on example
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"Six feet of earth make all men equal."

Proverb on equality
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"Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top."

Unknown, Source on averages
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"Our strength grows out of our weakness."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on weakness
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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

Hesse, Hermann on hatred
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"You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else."

Davis Jr., Sammy on acting and actors
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"Fear is the biggest motivator."

Dixon, Bill on fear   

"Only your mind can produce fear."

A Course In Miracles on fear
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"Everything you can imagine is real."

Picasso, Pablo on imagination
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Picasso, Pablo on art
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."

Anderson, Marian on fear
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"An ugly sight, a man who is afraid."

Anouilh, Jean on fear
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

Aurelius, Marcus on fear
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"First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down."

Bradbury, Ray on fear
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."

Churchill, Winston on lies and lying
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"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade."

Byron, Lord on lies and lying
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"Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have."

Bowen, Elizabeth on lies and lying
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"Liars are always ready to take oaths."

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di on lies and lying
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"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."

France, Anatole on lies and lying
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on knowledge
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"I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on uniqueness
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"I am a part of all that I have met."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on life
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"Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on uniqueness   

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