time...best spent

Behind every able man, there are always other able men.
Topic: Ability
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If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Topic: Advice
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Topic: Affliction
Source: None
Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
Topic: Age
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
Topic: Age
Source: None
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Topic: Anger
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If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Topic: Burden
Source: None
Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.
Topic: Caution
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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
Topic: Conscience
Source: None
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
Topic: Control
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You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
Topic: Control
Source: None
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Topic: Darkness
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Topic: Decision
Source: None
A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
Topic: Diligence
Source: None
Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
Topic: Discontent
Source: None
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Topic: Doubt
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To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.
Topic: Dreams
Source: None
Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.
Topic: Earth
Source: None
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Topic: Education
Source: None
In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
Topic: Family
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.
Topic: Family
Source: None
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
Topic: Fault
Source: None
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
Topic: Flaws
Source: None
A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
Topic: Fortune
Source: None
To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Topic: Gambling
Source: None
The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
Topic: Growth
Source: None
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
Topic: Habits
Source: None
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
Topic: Harm
Source: None
If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.
Topic: Heaven
Source: None
Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.
Topic: Hell
Source: None
Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.
Topic: Inspirational
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He who treads softly goes far.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Topic: Inspirational
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Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate mankind.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
Outside noisy, inside empty.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
The journey is the reward.
Topic: Journey
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone 's letter.
Topic: Joy
Source: None
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Topic: Joy
Source: None
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Topic: Knowledge
Source: None
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Topic: Learning
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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
Topic: Life
Source: None
Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.
Topic: Medicine
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The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Topic: Memory
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received this in an email today

He was getting old and paunchy
And his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion,
Telling stories of the past.

Of a war that he once fought in
And the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with his buddies;
They were heroes, every one.

And ‘tho sometimes to his neighbors
His tales became a joke;
All his buddies listened quietly
For they knew where of he spoke.

But we’ll hear his tales no longer,
For ol’ Bob has passed away,
And the world’s a little poorer
For a Soldier died today.

He won’t be mourned by many,
Just his children and his wife.
For he lived an ordinary,
Very quiet sort of life.

He held a job and raised a family,
Going quietly on his way;
And the world won’t note his passing,
‘Tho a Soldier died today.

When politicians leave this earth,
Their bodies lie in state,
While thousands note their passing,
And proclaim that they were great.

Papers tell of their life stories
From the time that they were young,
But the passing of a Soldier
Goes unnoticed, and unsung.

Is the greatest contribution
To the welfare of our land,
Some jerk who breaks his promise
And cons his fellow man?

Or the ordinary fellow
Who in times of war and strife,
Goes off to serve his country
And offers up his life?

The politician’s stipend
And the style in which he lives,
Are often disproportionate,
To the service that he gives.

While the ordinary Soldier,
Who offered up his all,
Is paid off with a medal
And perhaps a pension, small.

It is not the politicians
With their compromise and ploys,
Who won for us the freedom
That our country now enjoys.

Should you find yourself in danger,
With your enemies at hand,
Would you really want some cop-out,
With his ever waffling stand?

Or would you want a Soldier
His home, his country, his kin,
Just a common Soldier,
Who would fight until the end.

He was just a common Soldier,
And his ranks are growing thin,
But his presence should remind us
We may need his like again.

For when countries are in conflict,
We find the Soldier’s part
Is to clean up all the troubles
That the politicians start.

If we cannot do him honor
While he’s here to hear the praise,
Then at least let’s give him homage
At the ending of his days.

Perhaps just a simple headline
In the paper that might say:
“OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING,
A SOLDIER DIED TODAY.”