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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
~ English Proverb [19639]

Photo by JJ Harrison (jjharrison89@facebook.com) (Own work)
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A friend is known when needed.
~ Saudi Proverb [15304]

The Message by Thomas Cooper Gotch (1854-1931)
Public Domain

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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.
~ Swedish Proverb [15809]

Robert Lewis Reid
Public Domain

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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
~ Chinese Proverb [15058]

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It is not for the swan to teach eaglets to sing.
~ French and Danish Proverb [19500]

Lazy Days On The Lake, 2007
Photo by Sam Taiani
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your Mother
and all things as your Brothers and Sisters.
~ Native American Proverb [18225]

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Experience this moment to its fullest.
~ Zen Proverb [16508]

Photo by Alessandro Valli (Flickr: Agustin October 2008 2/3)
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
~ Swedish Proverb [16599]

Summer Clouds
CC Curran
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No matter how hard the past,
you can always begin again.
~ Buddhist Proverb [19609]

Photo by Original photograph taken by User:AngMoKio;
edited by Olegivvit (Own work)
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LEAVE NOTE: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BuddhisticStatuesHKe1.jpg

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Compassion is our deepest nature.
It arises from our interconnection with all things.
~ Buddhist Proverb [16040]

Robin Müller [CC-BY-SA-2.0-de], via Wikimedia Commons
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree.
From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo.
~ Zen Proverb [16605]

Photo by GaylaLin (Own work)
Public Domain

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Still water has no mind to receive
the image of the migrating geese.
~ Zen Proverb [18352]

Photo by Agustin Rafael Reyes
(A Cloudy Zen Garden)
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Wang Xizhi Watching Geese
Qian Xuan [Public domain],
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If you want a friend, be a friend.
~ English Proverb [17298]

Photo by Mike Baird
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One must learn to make others happy
if one wants to be happy.
~ Swedish Proverb [18058]

Photo by Mikael Häggström
Public Domain

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Love gives life within.
~ Hawaiian Proverb [17700]

Photo by Richard Ling (Coral Garden)
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen.
~ African Proverb [18611]

Autumn Reflections by Louise Docker
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
~ Zen Proverb [16907]

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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
~ Taoist Proverb [19635]

Photo by Dick Mudde (Own work)
Public Domain

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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
~ English Proverb [16617]

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A child is what you put into him.
~ African Proverb [15494]

Teresa (Terry) Jackson
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in
unless you have sent one out.
~ Belgian Proverb [17459]

Engelberger at the German language Wikipedia [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose.
~ Chinese Proverb [17759]

By Mdf (Own work)
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear,
and never so ill that one should have no hope.
~ Turkish Proverb [19005]

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1/9/13

When sleeping women wake, mountains move.
~ African Proverb [19636]

By Wikipedia Loves Art participant "Joey_B"
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This proverb is commonly found throughout China and most of Africa.

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Hope springs eternal.
~ American Proverb [16995]

Joys of Spring, c 1910
By René Lelong (1895-1930)
French, active late 19th/early 20th century)
Public Domain

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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.
~ Latin Proverb [16529]

Charles Edward Perugini
Public Domain

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He who knows how to live, knows enough.
~ Spanish Proverb [16795]

Simon Waddicor [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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What you think you are, you are,
until you think otherwise.
~ American Proverb [19641]

Charles Sprague Pearce
Public Domain

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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth.
Follow it.
~ Saudi Proverb [15270]

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God could not be everywhere, so He made mothers.
~ Jewish Proverb [16676]

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