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- I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738
- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
- Oriental Proverb
- Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
- Jewish Proverb
- One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
- Clementine Paddleford
- When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
- Jewish Proverb
- Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
- What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
- Jewish Proverb
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