"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on planning
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"Your friend has a friend; don't tell him."

Proverb, Chinese on gossip
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"Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last."

Proverb, Chinese on habit   

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

Proverb, Chinese on happiness
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"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home."

Proverb, Chinese on home
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"Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome."

Proverb, Chinese on insanity
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"To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself."

Proverb, Chinese on parents and parenting
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"Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life."

Proverb, Chinese on respectability
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"Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes."

Proverb, Chinese on studying
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"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

Proverb, Chinese on action
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"One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him."

Proverb, Chinese on complaints and complaining   

"He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes."

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

Proverb, Chinese on goodness
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"A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends."

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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"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."

Proverb, Chinese on adversity
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice."

Proverb, Chinese on advice
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"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."

Proverb, Chinese on decisions
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"I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one."

Proverb, Chinese on dream
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"The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him."

Proverb, Chinese on enemies
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"Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald."

Proverb, Chinese on experience
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"All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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"Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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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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"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."

Proverb, Chinese on criticism
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