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“Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb”
French Proverb
“May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten”
Irish Blessings
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
Eskimo Proverb
“Seeing is different than being told.”
African Proverb
“The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.”
Terry Pratchett
“Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.”
Leo Rosten
“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.”
John Bunyan
“A proverb is good sense brought to a point.”
John Morley
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