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Virtue is fairer far than beauty.
English Proverb
Work while it is day.
John
Wonders are many, and nothing is more wonderful than man.
Sophocles
Every man is the master of his own fortune.
R. Steels
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the
creatures of men.
Disraeli
I am the captain of my soul.
W. E. Henley
The eye that sees all things else sees not itself.
English Proverb
Quietude is the crown of life.
English Proverb
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
Browning
The best minister is the human heart; the best teacher is time;
the best book is the world; the best friend is God.
Yiddish Folk Saying
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is
what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
Ideals are like the stars - we never reach them, but like
mariners, we chart our course by them.
C. Schurz
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
Herrick
Kind hearts are the gardens; kind thoughts are the
roots; kind words are the flowers; kind deeds are
the fruits.
English Proverb
A tree is known by its fruit.
Jesus
Kindness always begets kindness.
Sophocles
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body.
Cicero
No one in the world can challenge the benignant man.
Mencius(Meng Zhi)
Where your will is ready, your feet are light.
Herbert
A great ship asks deep waters.
Fuller
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
English Proverb
The wealth of the mind is the only true wealth.
Hesiod
Patience is virtue.
Langland
There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue.
Edmund Burke
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the
determination to attain it.
Goethe
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
Chinese Proverb
He that can have patience, can have what he will.
B. Franklin
Where there is a will there is a way.
Scott
Rome was not built in a day.
Taverner
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Heywood
Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Pure gold does not fear the furnace.
Chinese Proverb
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
L. Seneca
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Emerson
Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.
German Proverb
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that
ever beset mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
A workman is known by his work.
English Proverb
Only they who fulfill their duty in everyday matters will
fulfill them on great occasions.
C. Kingsley
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools by their own.
Chaucer
You never know what you can do till you try.
Marryat
Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty
ocean and the pleasant land.
Julia Carney
It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor
Each goodly thing is hard to begin.
Spencer
There is no rule without exception.
Cervantes
One hour today is worth two tomorrow.
Fuller
The early bird catches the worm.
English Proverb
Strike while the iron is hot.
Camden
Say little and do much.
Rabbi Shammai
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you
don't try.
Beverly Sills
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to
fear from life.
Samuel Goldwyn
He laughs best who laughs last.
Scott
The bad workman quarrels with tools.
G.B.Gelli
Man's best plans often miscarry.
Burns
By others' faults wise men correct their own.
Nicolas Ling
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
Latin Proverb
Make hay while the sun shines.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Better return home and make a net than long for fish by the
waterside.
Chinese Proverb
Haste makes waste.
Good and quickly seldom meet.
George Herbert
A watched pot never boils.
Love begets love.
Hark
Love makes the world go round.
Dickens
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Shakespeare
A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.
Bon
East or west, home is best.
Bon
A mother's love never changes.
English Proverb
Faults are thick where love is thin.
Howell
Without respect, love cannot go far.
A. Dumas
As the old cock crows, the young cock learns.
Scott
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace.
German Proverb
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
Talmud Kidskin
In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children
but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will
make them successful human beings.
Ann Landaus
Where love fails, we espy all faults.
Home is home, though it be never so homely.
Good children make glad parents.
English Proverb
Before you marry, be sure of a house to tarry.
Torriano
The first wealth is health.
Emerson
Nothing is really beautiful but truth.
N. Boileau
Quality is better than quantity.
English Proverb
Observation is the best teacher.
English Proverb
Experience keeps a dear school.
Franklin
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Reason is the guide and light of life.
English Proverb
The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is
prejudice, and her constant companion is humility.
Colton
Knowledge is power.
F. Bacon
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we
know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Addison
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
German Proverb
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
E. Burke
Learning without thought means labour lost, thought without
learning is perilous.
Confucius(Kong Zhi)
The years teach much which the days never know.
Emerson
The more a man learns, the more he sees his ignorance.
Chinese Proverb
The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much,
and studying much.
Catherall
It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst
for it always get it.
R. Jefferies
Manners make the man.
William of Wykeham
Education has for its object, the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer
Study to be what you wish to seem.
English Proverb
He who is afraid of asking is shamed of learning.
Danish Proverb
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from
fools.
Lavater
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent
perspiration.
Edison
We learn not at school, but in life.
Latin Proverb
Knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud.
English Proverb
Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
English Proverb
A life without a friend is a life without sun.
French Proverb
A man who has friends must show himself friendly.
English Proverb
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle
A friend is a second self.
Latin Proverb
If you confer a benefit, never remember it;
if you receive one, remember it always.
English Proverb
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
English Proverb
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
He who loves others is constantly loved by them;
he who respects others is constantly respected by
them.
Mencju (Meng Zhi)
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others
without getting a few drops on yourself.
Emerson
To a wise man one word is enough.
William Dunbar
Good words cost nothing, but are worth much.
T. Fuller
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want
it the most always like it the least.
Philip Chesterfield
Teaching others teaches yourself.
English Proverb
Birds of a feather flock together.
Cicero
None are so deaf as those who will not hear.
Heywood
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Cervantes
He who knows others is learned, and he who knows himself is
wise.
Laotze (Lao Zhi)
He gives twice who gives quickly.
Johnson
Slow help is no help.
R. C. Trench
Be slow in choosing a friend; slower in changing.
B. Franklin
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
Herbert
He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
Fuller
Health is better that wealth.
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
G.W.Curtis
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Bacon
An efficacious medicine tastes bitter.
Chinese Proverb
A light heart lives long.
Shakespeare
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
Servants
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Howell
Habit is a cable, we weave a thread of it
everyday, and at last we cannot break it.
Horace
Prevention is better than cure.
Dickens
After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.
English Proverb
Sickness is felt, but health not at all.
Fuller
Diet cures more than the doctor.
English Proverb
Gluttony kills more than the sword.
Francesco Patriss
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
Fuller
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner
or later to find time for illness.
J. Wanamaker
Better wear out shoes than sheets.
English Proverb
The important thing is never to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned
to repeat it.
George Santayana
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
Chinese proverb
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people
who cannot do him much good, and how he treats people who
cannot fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
One who desires the attention of others has not yet found
himself.
Rav Shlomo Wolbe
Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant.
Yiddish Folk Saying
If you want the present to be different from the past, study
the past.
Baruch Spinoza
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