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MrSterling
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kryptonian
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2013 is the year of the black Snake begins on February 10th . Focus and discipline will be necessary for you to achieve what you set out to create.
some ancient chinese proverbs.. have a happy, safe and productive 2013 
Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body.
- Chinese Proverb
In learning, age and youth go for nothing; the best informed take the precedence.
- Chinese Proverb
Unsullied poverty is always happy, while impure wealth brings with it many sorrows.
- Chinese Proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb
Good fortune is a benefit to the wise, but a curse to the foolish.
- Chinese Proverb
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
- Chinese Proverb
The best thing is to be respected, the next, is to be loved; it is bad to be hated, but still worse to be despised.
- Chinese Proverb
A foolish husband fears his wife; a prudent wife obeys her husband.
- Chinese Proverb
A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as the hollow mountain returns all sounds.
- Chinese Proverb
By nature all men are alike, but by education very different.
- Chinese Proverb
He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure.
- Chinese Proverb
The fame of good men’s actions seldom goes beyond their own doors, but their evil deeds are carried a thousand miles’ distance.
- Chinese Proverb
The doctrine that enters only into the ear is like the repast one takes in a dream.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not anxiously expect what is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not consider any vice as trivial, and therefore practise it; do not consider any virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect it.
- Chinese Proverb
It is not easy to stop the fire when the water is at a distance; friends at hand are better than relations afar off.
- Chinese Proverb
When the man of a naturally good propensity has much wealth it injures his advancement in wisdom; when a worthless man has much wealth it increases his faults.
- Chinese Proverb
The man of worth is really great without being proud; the mean man is proud without being really great.
- Chinese Proverb
Let every man sweep the snow from before his own doors, and not busy himself about the frost on his neighbour’s tiles.
- Chinese Proverb
Modesty is attended with profit, arrogance brings on destruction.
- Chinese Proverb
Those who cause dissensions in order to injure other people are preparing pitfalls for their own ruin.
- Chinese Proverb
The man of first rate excellence is virtuous in spite of instruction; he of the middle class is so after instruction; the lowest order of men are vicious in spite of instruction.
- Chinese Proverb
goodbye dragon!
Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body.
- Chinese Proverb
In learning, age and youth go for nothing; the best informed take the precedence.
- Chinese Proverb
Unsullied poverty is always happy, while impure wealth brings with it many sorrows.
- Chinese Proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb
Good fortune is a benefit to the wise, but a curse to the foolish.
- Chinese Proverb
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
- Chinese Proverb
The best thing is to be respected, the next, is to be loved; it is bad to be hated, but still worse to be despised.
- Chinese Proverb
A foolish husband fears his wife; a prudent wife obeys her husband.
- Chinese Proverb
A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as the hollow mountain returns all sounds.
- Chinese Proverb
By nature all men are alike, but by education very different.
- Chinese Proverb
He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure.
- Chinese Proverb
The fame of good men’s actions seldom goes beyond their own doors, but their evil deeds are carried a thousand miles’ distance.
- Chinese Proverb
The doctrine that enters only into the ear is like the repast one takes in a dream.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not anxiously expect what is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not consider any vice as trivial, and therefore practise it; do not consider any virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect it.
- Chinese Proverb
It is not easy to stop the fire when the water is at a distance; friends at hand are better than relations afar off.
- Chinese Proverb
When the man of a naturally good propensity has much wealth it injures his advancement in wisdom; when a worthless man has much wealth it increases his faults.
- Chinese Proverb
The man of worth is really great without being proud; the mean man is proud without being really great.
- Chinese Proverb
Let every man sweep the snow from before his own doors, and not busy himself about the frost on his neighbour’s tiles.
- Chinese Proverb
Modesty is attended with profit, arrogance brings on destruction.
- Chinese Proverb
Those who cause dissensions in order to injure other people are preparing pitfalls for their own ruin.
- Chinese Proverb
The man of first rate excellence is virtuous in spite of instruction; he of the middle class is so after instruction; the lowest order of men are vicious in spite of instruction.
- Chinese Proverb
goodbye dragon!
