#verbs

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. ↗

— William R. Alger

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. ↗

— James Richardson

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

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Poetry is all nouns and verbs. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. ↗

— William Temple

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I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on. ↗

— Mark Pincus

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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life. ↗

— St. Jerome

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Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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