#verbs

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

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

— J. Paul Getty

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I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man. ↗

— Billy Graham

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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people. ↗

— James Howell

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I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time. ↗

— Anonymous

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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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