Smart thoughts! It's a pity that are not mine! ;)
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Fathers and children have not to wait requests from each other, but have precautionary to give necessary to each other, superiority Belongs to the father.
It is good to leave this life, as from a party: not thirsty, but also not overdrunk.
Those who have pets, must recognize, that they serve animals more, than animals serve them.
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| 1 | Marry in haste: repent at leisure. - Scottish proverb
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| 2 | Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese proverb, often misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt
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| 3 | Lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin
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| 4 | People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Anon
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| 5 | Greed is a permanent slavery. - Ali
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| 6 | Death with dignity is better than life with humiliation. - Husayn ibn Ali
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| 7 | That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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| 8 | It can embody a bit of humor or be tied to some overworked statement, such as:
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| 9 | One man's meat is another man's poison.
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Aphorisms of Hippocrates:
| 10 | "Old men support abstinence well: people of a ripe age less well: Young folk badly, and children less well than all the rest, particularly those of them who are very lively."
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| 11 | "Those who are very fat by nature are more exposed to die suddenly than those who are thin."
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| 12 | "When two illnesses arrive at the same time, the stronger silences the weaker."
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| 13 | Life is short, art is long, opportunity fugitive, experimenting dangerous, reasoning difficult: it is necessary not only to do oneself what is right, but also to be seconded by the patient, by those who attend him, by external circumstances."
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Examples of Hadith
| 14 | "The first thing created by God was the intellect."
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| 15 | "The ink of the scholar is more precious than the blood of the martyr."
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| 16 | "One learned man is harder on the devil than a thousand worshippers."
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| 17 | "Riches are not from an abundance of worldly goods, but from a contended mind."
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| 18 | "He who wishes to enter the paradise at the best door must please his mother and father."
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| 19 | "No man is a true believer unless he desires for his brother that he desires for himself."
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| 20 | "When the bier of anyone passes by you, whether Jew, Christian, or Muslim, rise to your feet."
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| 21 | "The thing which is lawful but is disliked by God is divorce."
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| 22 | "Women are twin-halves of men."
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| 23 | "Actions will be judged according to intentions."
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| 24 | "That which is lawful is clear and that which is unlawful likewise, but there are certain doubtful things between the two from which it is well to abstain."
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| 25 | "The proof of a Muslim's sincerity is that he pays no attention to that which is not his business."
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| 26 | "That person is nearest to God, who pardons�him who would have injured him."
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| 26 | "�yield obedience to my successor, although he may be an Abyssinian slave."
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| 27 | "Assist any person oppressed, whether Muslim or non-Muslim."
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| 28 | "The creation is like God's family�the most beloved unto God is the person who does good to God's family."
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| 29 | "Modesty and chastity are parts of the Faith."
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| 30 | Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.- Chinese Proverb
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| 31 | Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely. - Chinese Proverb
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| 32 | Beware of a man of one book.
- English Proverb
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| 33 | If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. - Cicero
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| 34 | To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert
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| 35 | Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. - Proverb from Guinea
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| 36 | Seeing is different than being told. - Proverb from Kenya
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| 37 | Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and digested. - Frances Bacon
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| 38 | To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is disease. - Lao Tsu
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| 39 | Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature.
It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright
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| 40 | Strew no roses before swine. - Dutch Proverb
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| 41 | People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.- L.P. Smith
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| 42 | Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember.
Involve me, and I'll understand. - Native American Proverb
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| 43 | Life is like an onion. You peel it off layer by layer and sometimes you cry.
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| 44 | I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. - Diane Ackerman
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| 45 | The best things in life aren't things. - Art Buchwald
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| 46 | Life is a dead-end street. - Henry L. Mencken
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| 47 | Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.- Irving Cristol
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| 48 | Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.- Chinese proverb
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| 49 | The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
- Mencius
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| 50 | Happiness is nothing more than good health
and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
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| 51 | People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. - Anton Chekhov
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| 52 | One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese proverb
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| 53 | The best way to cheer yourself up
Is to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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| 54 | A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels
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| 55 | A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia
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| 56 | Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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| 57 | The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927
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| 58 | It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake
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| 59 | True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry
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| 60 | A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit
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| 61 | God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare
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| 62 | The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. ~James Matthew Barrie
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| 63 | "Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people. ~Tom Masson
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| 64 | No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. ~John Morley
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| 65 | There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~Euripides
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| 66 | Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli
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| 67 | Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius
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| 68 | The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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| 69 | If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.
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| 70 | To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. ~Oscar Wilde
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| 71 | Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde
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| 72 | Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
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| 73 | Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ~Julius Charles Hare
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| 74 | You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~Irene C. Kassorla
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| 75 | You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason
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| 76 | It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide
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| 77 | We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~Kurt Vonnegut
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| 78 | Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
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| 79 | How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
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| 80 | Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~Fanny Brice
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| 81 | Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~Mark Twain
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| 82 | Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ~Samuel Ullman
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| 83 | In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. ~Nikita Ivanovich Panin
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| 84 | The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| 85 | Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator
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| 86 | Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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| 87 | Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
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| 88 | Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. ~Robert Southey, The Doctor
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| 89 | A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~John Barrymore
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| 90 | How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? ~Satchel Paige
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| 91 | Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. ~Caryn Leschen
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| 92 | Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ~Victor Hugo
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| 93 | Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Guatemalan Proverb
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| 94 | There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.
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| 95 | Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
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| 96 | There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going. ~J.B. Priestly
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| 97 | Age is a high price to pay for maturity. ~Tom Stoppard
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| 98 | The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. ~Mark Twain
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| 99 | Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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| 100 | Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| 101 | There's no such thing as too late. That's why they invented death. ~From the movie 'Out to Sea'
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| 102 | To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| 103 | The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ~Doris Lessing
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| 104 | Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum
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| 105 | An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. ~Agatha Christie, news summaries, 9 March 1954
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| 106 | When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
~Sara Teasdale
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| 107 | Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ~Quoted by Francis Bacon, Apothegm
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| 108 | To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. ~Henri Amiel
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| 109 | The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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| 110 | We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. ~Charles Lamb
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We can offer you the following list of hotels.
| 5 Stars | The five-star Beijing International Hotel is an ideal location for the discriminating traveller...all the foreign embassies and prime business are just a short distance away.
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| 5 Stars | Standing on top of News Plaza, one can see the whole of Beijing city. The hotel offers “customer-first” service where the guests are guaranteed a comfortable “home away from home.” |  |
| 5 Stars | The St. Regis Hotel is the hallmark of luxurious accommodations in China, with a rich tradition of exceptional service and hospitality. |  |
| 5 Stars | Grand Dynasty Hotel offers to its guests convenient access to the prime areas of the city, tourist attractions and the opportunity to lodge in luxury and style worthy of the city of Emperors past. |  |
| 5 Stars | Crowne Plaza Park View Wuzhou hotel is located in the northern part of Beijing near the Beijing International Convention Centre and next to new development zone for the 2008 Olympic Games. |  |
| 5 Stars | Generations of Zhao Long Hotel staff have been living up to people's expectation, preserving and carrying forward the brilliant name of it. |  |
| 5 Stars | The Huandao Boya Hotel boasts 143 luxurious rooms and suites that are comfortable, well furnished and equipped with modern amenities. Featuring a restaurant that serves a wide variety of delicacies. |  |
| 5 Stars | The Presidential Plaza Beijing, located in downtown Beijing adjacent to the city's main department store and one block from a supermarket, is ideally situated to explore the city of Beijing, China.
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| 5 Stars | The Kun Lun Hotel overlooks the scenic Liangma River in a fast-developing commercial district of Beijing. |  |
| 5 Stars | The China World Hotel is located in the heart of the diplomatic and financial district, close to the Forbidden City. It is one of Beijing's finest hotels. |  |
| 5 Stars | The 18-story hotel offers 155 luxuriously appointed, spacious guest rooms and suites, equipped with a multitude of amenities. |  |
| 5 Stars | Asia Hotel Beijing is situated across the street from the Poly Theatre, just east of the Beijing Workers Stadium. You are expected the exciting food service facilities of the Asia Hotel Beijing. |  |
| 5 Stars | Loong Palace Hotel & Resort is the first international premium hotel in Changping District.
It is situated to provide easy access to the city's best known tourist attractions…and key shopping areas.
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| 5 Stars | The Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center (Beijing kaibinsiji fandian) offers a wide range of amenities that reflects the outward nature of this modern city. |  |
| 5 Stars | The Renaissance Beijing Hotel combines elegance and fashion with deluxe superbly equipped accommodations and a high level of personal service, located in the heart of commercial centre. |  |
| 5 Stars | Within the New Otani Chang Fu Gong hotel is a complete range of facilities such as a health club, shopping center and business center to enhance the comfort of guests throughout their stay.
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| 4 Stars | The four-star Beijing Kai Kang International Hotel, located near the Asian Games Village sports complex. The hotel features a disco, a karaoke bar, a gym and a sauna center. |  |
| 4 Stars | Being a 4-star standard hotel, the Novotel Xinqiao, Beijing is conveniently located near ideal transportation links. The hotel brings an ideally balanced combination of traditional architecture. |  |
| 4 Stars | Located north of Beijing and West Railway Station, Zhongyu Century Grand Hotel is a four-star hotel decorated in both classical and modern styles. |  |
| 4 Stars | Plaza Hotel Beijing provides ideal access to bus stops, rail transportation, the Beijing International Airport, some km away from the Beijing World Trade Center. |  |
| 4 Stars | It's a very good and brand new hotel. Sharing the best location for shopping and also convenient for business travelers. |  |
| 4 Stars | Zhongmin Plaza Hotel offers luxury accommodations at an exceptional value. Business travellers will appreciate the fully-equipped conference facilities and smartly appointed rooms. |  |
| 4 Stars | Beijing Xindadu Hotel is a four-star luxury hotel. The convenient location, modern facilities, and its advanced management enhanced its reputation. Its qualified services are greatly appreciated.
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| 4 Stars | The deluxe Shangri-La Traders Hotel Beijing is in the centre of the city's diplomatic and business district. Guests can expect superb accommodation and the impeccable service. |  |
| 4 Stars | The Holiday Inn Hotel Downtown Beijing is located in the financial district, close to security houses, Sichuan Mansion, Corporate Square, Ping An Plaza and major shopping complexes. |  |
| 4 Stars | Old style décor and spacious arrangement, Xiang Jiang restaurant can be your best choice for friends gathering and wedding ceremony. |  |
| 4 Stars | New World Courtyard Beijing is a four-star hotel for business and leisure guests. It is located inside the New World Centre, adourned with two office towers and serviced apartment. |  |
| 4 Stars | Marco Polo Beijing is an international standard deluxe hotel located in Xidan commercial and shopping area. Marco Polo is a convenient location and easy transportation. |  |
| 4 Stars | The Henan Plaza is located in an exciting neighborhood and boasts a full complement of activities to keep you occupied in the evenings. |  |
| 4 Stars | The Beijing Landmark Tower Hotel is situated between the airport and the city centre, in the north east of Beijing. It is just 5 minutes drive from the Beijing Exhibition Centre. |  |
| 4 Stars | Located in the heart of Beijing's new commercial and diplomatic district, Hilton Beijing is a refreshing retreat from an intensive day of meetings, shopping or sight. |  |
| 4 Stars | Inaugurated in 1952, Beijing Peace Hotel is one of the oldest hotels in the age-old capital. And it also does well in integrating tradition with moderation as a four-star joint-venture hotel. |  |
| 4 Stars | Adjacent to the hotel building is a lush garden; the perfect oasis for relaxation and special activities. The heated indoor swimming pool together with the warm sauna is the ideal solution to unwind. |  |
| 4 Stars | The Sino-Swiss Hotel is the only international business-resort hotel near the Beijing Capital Airport. It offers personalized service and has a dedicated team to make your rest comfortable. |  |
| 4 Stars | Holiday Inn Central Plaza is conveniently located in commercial and civic area, adjacent to the new Municipal Government Office Building and is within a stone's throw from Beijing's Financial Street. |  |
| 4 Stars | Guangzhou hotel provides a complete selection to amenities well-equipped guestrooms with its distinctive character to create comfort. Its restaurant offers you the finest Cantonese cuisine. |  |
| 4 Stars | The China Garment House Hotel Beijing, founded 8 kilometers from the heart of the city, provides its guests with excellent access to the wonders of the city, and superb quality and value. |  |
| 4 Stars | Howard Johnson Paragon Hotel Beijing is ideally located on East Chang An Street, in the heart of the golden area of the capital city, surrounded by major business centers, tourist attractions... |  |
| 4 Stars | The Jinglun Hotel combines the state-of-the-art amenities with a traditional hospitality. Opened in 1984, it was one of the first international joint venture four-star hotel in Beijing. |  |
| 4 Stars | The Jianguo Hotel Beijing is situated in the heart of Beijing city. This hotel has a peaceful, relaxing atmosphere created by the unique garden architecture and comfortable furnishings. |  |
| 4 Stars | Holiday Inn Lido Beijing has 433 tastefully furnished rooms and suites, including an Executive Club floor. The hotel offers 270 non-smoking and 157 smoking rooms. |  |
| 3 Stars | In Yan Jiang hotel you take a dip in the pool, then stop in for a full massage, and top the day off with a trip to the salon, where you’ll end up looking your best. |  |
| 3 Stars | The Songhe Hotel Beijing is in the heart of city, adjacent to the busy Wangfujing shopping area. Just a short stroll away is the city's famed landmarks, namely the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. |  |
| 3 Stars | Beijing Shatan Hotel located west of Jingshan Park, and north-west of the Forbidden City. The Bright and elegant accommodations afforded by the Hotel will be sure to surprise and delight all guests. |  |
| 3 Stars | Taiwan Hotel is conveniently located in the centre of Beijing, Wangfujing Street - the most well know shopping area in the capital of the People' Republic of China. |  |
| 3 Stars | Cui Ming Zhuang Hotel is located in the city center of Beijing, closed to many famous travel spots. |  |
| 3 Stars | The Ocean Hotel Beijing (Yuanyang jiudian) is located near Wangfujing Avenue in Dongchen district, just 15-minutes walking distance to Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City. |  |
| 3 Stars | The hotel locates in one of the busiest downtowns in Beijing with convenient communications spreading almost everywhere. It is an architectural complex, surrounded by apartment and office building. |  |
| 3 Stars | The Chong Wen Men Hotel is a three star hotel, which combines tourism, food and beverage, and recreation. The building stands out against the others with its modern style.
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| 3 Stars | The Jing Du Yuan hotel is located in the east side of the city center, near the famous shopping center beside the second ring road. |  |
| 3 Stars | Asia Pacific Garden Hotel is a high-rise building with a gentle crookedness giving the appearance of lift, almost an internal spirit, the soul of the building, perhaps.
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| 3 Stars | The convenient Tu Ha Petroleum Hotel is pleased to offer some of the best packages for accommodations in the city. A modest facility houses a number of guest rooms, a restaurant, fitness center, spa |  |
| 3 Stars | The Novotel Oasis Beijing is the first all-suite spa resort in China. The resort offers guests a getaway from the capital complete with the city’s finest recreational, meeting and spa facilities. |  |
| 3 Stars | The Xinxing Hotel Beijing is a three-star hotel offering convenient transportation around the city, quality amenities, friendly service, and much more. |  |
| 2 Stars | The Zi Jin Wan Shou Gong hotel is located near the Daguangyuan, one of park built according to the very famous Chinese novel Red Mansion. |  |
| 2 Stars | The hotel boasts its landscaped environment, hotel-style service and modern management. Holding the service concept of "Homelike Garden", it will continue providing satisfied service for customers. |  |
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