Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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The Road Not Taken |
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Wisdom & Proverbs
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Wisdom
- "Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he
knows no more."
- William Cowper
- "No man is wise who is not good. No man is wise who is not humble."
- Unknown
- "The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
- George Santayana
- "A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."
- Jonathan Swift
Proverbs
- Alles van waarde is weerloos
(Everything of value is defenseless)
- Author Unknown
- "A stumble may prevent a fall."
- English proverb
- "Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."
- African proverb
- "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb
- "If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."
- Anonymous
- "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
- Frank Herbert, Dune--Santayana
- "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and
you feed him for a lifetime."
- Chinese Proverb
- "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
- Mother Teresa
- "He who saves a life, saves the world in time."
- Jewish Proverb
- "Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open."
- Rose Lane
- "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has
opened for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell
- "What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost."
- Old Epitaph
- "Never fear answers; only fear running out of questions."
- Ivanova, Babylon-5
- "The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold"
- Danish Proverb
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