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A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill.
- Scottish Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.
- Jewish Proverb
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A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.
- Chinese Proverb
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A book holds a house of gold.
- Chinese Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
- Chinese Proverb
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A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.
- Chinese Proverb
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A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
- Native American Proverb
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A camel never sees its own hump.
- African Proverb
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A clear conscience is a good pillow.
- American Proverb
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A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.
- Chinese Proverb
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A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor.
- Scottish Proverb
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A contented mind is a continual feast.
- American Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
- German proverb
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A crow is no whiter for being washed.
- French Proverb
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A danger foreseen is half-avoided.
- Cheyenne Proverb
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A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
- Chinese Proverb
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A dimple in the chin a devil within.
- Irish Proverb
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A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing.
- Irish Proverb
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A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.
- Irish Proverb
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A father is a banker provided by nature.
- French Proverb
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A fault confessed is half redressed.
- Polish Proverb
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A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.
- Chinese Proverb
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A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
- African Proverb
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A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
- Chinese Proverb
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A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- Arab Proverb
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A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
- Proverbs 1717 Bible
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A full cup must be carried steadily.
- English Proverb
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A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb
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A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.
- Danish Proverb
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A good friend will fit you like ring to finger.
- Venezuelan Proverb
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A good resolution is like an old horse, which is often saddled but rarely ridden.
- Mexican Proverb
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A good rest is half the work.
- Yugoslav Proverb
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A good son makes a good husband.
- American Proverb
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A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance.
- Yiddish Proverb
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A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
- Polish Proverb
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A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.
- Irish Proverb
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A half-truth is a whole lie.
- Jewish Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
- Dutch Proverb
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A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.
- American Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
- Turkish Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young.
- Greek Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green.
- German Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Chinese Proverb
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A kind word is like a spring day.
- Russian Proverb
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A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
- American Proverb
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A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.
- German proverb
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A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.
- Cuban Proverb
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A lie travels farther than the truth.
- Irish Proverb
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A light heart lives long.
- Irish Proverb
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A little pot boils easily.
- Dutch Proverb
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A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about.
- Cuban Proverb
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A man is as old as he feels himself to be.
- English Proverb
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A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
- Russian Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
- Latin Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
- Yiddish Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Danish proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish proverb
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
- English Proverb
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A man's ruin lies in his tongue.
- Egyptian Proverb
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A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.
- Assyrian Proverb
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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
- Proverbs 2719 Bible
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A mother understands what a child does not say.
- Jewish Proverb
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A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux
- American Indian Proverb
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A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.
- Yiddish Proverb
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A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.
- Jewish Proverb
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A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.
- Bolivian Proverb
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A rich man has no need of character.
- Hebrew Proverb
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
- Portuguese Proverb
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
- Irish Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
- Chinese Proverb
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A smiling face is half the meal.
- Latvian Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
- English Proverb
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A snake deserves no pity.
- Yiddish Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.
- Greek proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
- Greek Proverb
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A soft answer turneth away wrath.
- Proverbs 151 Bible
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A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
- Bible, Proverbs 15:1 (KJV)
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A stumble may prevent a fall.
- English Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
- Chinese Proverb
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A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
- Chinese proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
- American Proverb
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A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.
- Irish Proverb
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A white wall is the fool's paper.
- French Proverb
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A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have.
- Italian Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
- Chinese Proverb
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A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
- Greek Proverb
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- English Proverb
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Abundance, like want, ruins many.
- Romanian Proverb
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Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
- French Proverb
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Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
- Romanian Proverb
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Advice is least heeded when most needed.
- English Proverb
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Advice is least heeded when most needed.
- American Proverb
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After dark all cats are leopards. Zuni
- American Indian Proverb
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After dinner, rest after dinner walk a mile.
- Arab Proverb
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After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
- Italian Proverb
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After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.
- Chinese Proverb
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After victory, tighten your helmet chord.
- Japanese Proverb
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All sins cast long shadows.
- Irish Proverb
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All sunshine makes the desert.
- Arab Proverb
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All things good to know are difficult to learn.
- Greek Proverb
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Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.
- American Proverb
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An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
- Arab Proverb
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An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.
- Romanian Proverb
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An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
- Chinese Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
- Danish proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.
- Danish proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor.
- French Proverb
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Anger is the only thing to put off until tomorrow.
- Czech Proverb
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Anger without power is folly.
- German Proverb
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Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.
- Bible, Proverbs 26:4 (NIV)
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Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
- American Proverb
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Art is the illusion of spontaneity.
- Japanese Proverb
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As a man thinketh, so is he
- Proverbs 237 Bible
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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
- Bible, Proverbs 23:7
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As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.
- German Proverb
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As he thinks in his heart, so he is.
- Jewish Proverb
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As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countance of his friend.
- Proverbs 2717 Bible
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As you teach, you learn.
- Jewish Proverb
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Ask a lot, but take what is offered.
- Assyrian Proverb
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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
- Jewish Proverb
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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
- Jewish Proverb
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Ask advice only of your equals.
- Danish proverb
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Ask advice only of your equals.
- Danish Proverb
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Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.
- Omaha Proverb
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Ask the experienced rather than the learned.
- Arab Proverb
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At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish.
- Thai Proverb
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Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.
- Gaelic Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens.
- Danish proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens.
- Danish Proverb
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Bad news goes about in clogs, Good news in stockinged feet.
- Welsh Proverb
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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
- Scottish Proverb
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Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
- Welsh Proverb
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Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
- Welsh Proverb
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Be humble for you are made of dung. Be noble for you are made of stars.
- Serbian proverb
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Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
- Serbian Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
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Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
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Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
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Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water.
- Latin Proverb
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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
- Scottish Proverb
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Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.
- Chinese Proverb
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Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant..
- Turkish Proverb
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Bed is the poor man's opera.
- Italian Proverb
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Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
- Scottish Proverb
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Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard.
- Japanese Proverb
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Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese Proverb
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Better a mouse in the pot than no meat at all.
- Romanian Proverb
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Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
- Scottish Proverb
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Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
- Scottish Proverb
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Better be quarreling than lonesome.
- Irish Proverb
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Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
- Irish Proverb
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Better no law than laws not enforced.
- Italian Proverb
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Better the foot slip than the tongue.
- French Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb
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Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
- Italian Proverb
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
- Italian Proverb
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Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting.
- Burmese Proverb
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Beware of the man to whom you have done a good turn.
- Lebanese Proverb
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Blessed is he who speaks a kindness thrice blessed is he who repeats it.
- Arab Proverb
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Blind belief is dangerous.
- Kenyan Proverb
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Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.
- Venezuelan Proverb
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Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.
- Spanish Proverb
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Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.
- Spanish Proverb
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Break the leg of a bad habit.
- Puerto Rican Proverb
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Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.
- Irish Proverb
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Buy on the rumor sell on the news.
- Wall Street Proverb
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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
- Wall Street Proverb
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By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible.
- Italian Proverb
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By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.
- Italian Proverb
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By learning to obey, you will know how to command.
- Italian Proverb
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By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
- Latin Proverb
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By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
- Latin Proverb
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Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.
- Yiddish Proverb
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
- Indian Proverb
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
- Indian Proverb
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Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
- Proverbs 627-9 Bible Hebrew
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Character is what you are in the dark.
- American Proverb
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Charity sees the need not the cause.
- German proverb
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Charity sees the need not the cause.
- German Proverb
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Charity sees the need not the cause.
- German Proverb
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Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
- Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31:30
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Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
- Cuban Proverb
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Children are a poor man's wealth.
- Danish proverb
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Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.
- Scottish Proverb
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Climb mountains to see lowlands.
- Chinese Proverb
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Complain to one who can help you.
- Yugoslav Proverb
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Complain to one who can help you.
- Yugoslav Proverb
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Confessed faults are half mended.
- Scottish Proverb
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Conscience is the voice of the soul.
- Polish Proverb
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Conversation is food for the soul.
- Mexican Proverb
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Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not love.)
- Danish proverb
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Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
- English Proverb
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Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
- English Proverb
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Danger past, God forgotten.
- Scottish Proverb
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Daylight follows a dark night.
- Maasai Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese Proverb
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Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.
- Japanese Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
- Chinese Proverb
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Deliberate often--decide once.
- Latin Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty.
- Chinese Proverb
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
- American Proverb
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Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
- American Proverb
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Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy.
- Spanish Proverb
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Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.
- Chinese Proverb
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Do not always expect good to happen, but do not let evil take you by surprise.
- Czech Proverb
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Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.
- English Proverb
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Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
- Jewish Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
- Hebrew Proverb
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Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
- Persian Proverb
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Do not employ handsome servants.
- Chinese Proverb
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Do not employ handsome servants.
- Chinese Proverb
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Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.
- Chinese Proverb
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Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river.
- Haitian Proverb
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Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping.
- Latin Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
- Czech Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
- Czech Proverb
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Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you.
- Romanian Proverb
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Do not rejoice over what has not yet happened.
- Egyptian Proverb
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Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
- Chinese Proverb
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Do not spit in the well - you may be thirsty by and by.
- Russian Proverb
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Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
- Arab Proverb
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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
- Kurdish Proverb
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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
- Kurdish Proverb
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Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
- African Proverb
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Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.
- Proverbs 3:27
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Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.
- American Indian Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
- Jewish Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
- English Proverb
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Don't fall before you're pushed.
- English Proverb
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Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
- Swedish Proverb
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Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.
- Jewish Proverb
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Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
- Jewish Proverb
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Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
- Belgian Proverb
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Don't marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper.
- Scotts Proverb
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Don't offer me advice give me money.
- Danish proverb
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Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile.
- Jewish Proverb
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Don't run too far, you will have to return the same distance.
- Biblical Proverb
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Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
- Danish proverb
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Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
- Japanese Proverb
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Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
- Malayan Proverb
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Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
- Swedish Proverb
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Dreams are wishes your heart makes.
- American Proverb
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Drink nothing without seeing it Sign nothing without reading it.
- Danish proverb
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Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.
- Spanish Proverb
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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
- Spanish Proverb
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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
- Spanish Proverb
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Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
- Arab Proverb
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Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
- Arab Proverb
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Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
- Arab Proverb
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Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
- Arapaho Proverb
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Each day provides its own gifts.
- American Proverb
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Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
- Chinese Proverb
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Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.
- Polish Proverb
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Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
- Greek Proverb
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Eating and scratching want but a beginning.
- Romanian Proverb
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Eating while seated makes one of large size eating while standing makes one strong.
- Hindustani Proverb
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Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
- Chinese Proverb
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Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river.
- Chinese Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
- Persian Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.
- Polish Proverb
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Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
- Proverbs 1728 Bible
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Even the longest day has its end.
- Irish Proverb
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Every animal knows more than you do. Nez Perce
- American Indian Proverb
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
- Moorish Proverb
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Every invalid is a doctor.
- Irish Proverb
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Every path has its puddle.
- English Proverb
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Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.
- Danish proverb
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Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.
- African Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
- Yiddish Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
- Yiddish Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
- Yiddish proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart.
- Guatemalan Proverb
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Everyone is wise until he speaks.
- Irish Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
- Italian Proverb
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Everyone thinks his own burden heavy.
- French Proverb
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Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.
- French Proverb
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Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks. (tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse)
- French Proverb
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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arab Proverb
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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arab Proverb
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Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other.
- Japanese Proverb
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Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
- Belgian Proverb
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Eyes that see do not grow old.
- Nicaraguan Proverb
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Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
- Proverbs 276 Bible
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Fall down seven times, get up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
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Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more
- Swedish Proverb
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Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
- Swedish Proverb
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Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.
- Swedish Proverb
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Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.
- Latin Proverb
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Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.
- Assyrian Proverb
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First Appeared in 1721
- Proverb
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First deserve, and then desire.
- English Proverb
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First mend yourself, and then mend others.
- Jewish Proverb
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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
- Greek Proverb
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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
- Greek Proverb
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Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.
- Polish Proverb
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For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again...
- Proverbs 2416a Bible
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For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.
- Turkish Proverb
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
- Chinese Proverb
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Fortune is a giver and a taker.
- Polish Proverb
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Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
- Arabian Proverb
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Friendship is love with understanding.
- Ancient Proverb
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From a fallen tree, all make kindling.
- Danish proverb
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From word to deed is a great space.
- French Proverb
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Get what you can and keep what you have that's the way to get rich.
- Scottish Proverb
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
- Chinese Proverb
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
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Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper.
- Irish Proverb
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Give me neither poverty nor riches.
- Proverbs 30.8 Bible
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Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.
- English Proverb
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Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.
- Danish proverb
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Go and wake up your luck.
- Persian Proverb
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Go often to the house of thy friend for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
- Scandinavian Proverb
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Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
- Scandinavian Proverb
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God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
- African Proverb
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
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God gave teeth He will give bread.
- Lithuanian Proverb
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God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
- Swedish Proverb
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God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.
- German proverb
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God gives, but man must open his hand.
- German Proverb
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God pays, but not weekly wages.
- Polish Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk.
- Arabic Proverb
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God will be present, whether asked or not.
- Latin Proverb
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Good habits result from resisting temptation.
- Ancient Proverb
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Good habits result from resisting temptation.
- Ancient Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising.
- Irish Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
- Danish proverb
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- French Proverb
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Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear.
- Japanese Proverb
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Gossip needs no carriage.
- Assyrian Proverb
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Gossip needs no carriage.
- Russian Proverb
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Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
- Italian Proverb
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
- Greek Proverb
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Great anger is more destructive than the sword
- Tamil Proverb
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Great men are not always wise.
- Biblical Proverb
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Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.
- French Proverb
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Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy.
- Honduran Proverb
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Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
- Chinese Proverb
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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
- Chinese Proverb
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Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
- Latin Proverb
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He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
- Proverbs 104 Bible
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He fishes well who uses a golden hook.
- Latin Proverb
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He is most cheated who cheats himself.
- Danish Proverb
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He is rich enough that wants nothing.
- Polish Proverb
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He is rich who owes nothing.
- French Proverb
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He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
- Jewish Proverb
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He that does not ask will never get a bargain.
- French Proverb
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He that has no charity deserves no mercy.
- English Proverb
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He that is of a merry heart hasth a continual feast.
- Biblical Proverb
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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
- Bible, Proverbs, XLI, 32
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He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly...
- Proverbs 1417a Bible
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He that jokes confesses.
- Italian Proverb
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He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.
- English Proverb
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He that lives on hope will die fasting.
- American Proverb
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He that loves the law will get his fill of it.
- Scottish Proverb
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He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
- Biblical Proverb
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He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
- English Proverb
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He that promises most will perform least.
- Gaelic Proverb
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He that seeks trouble never misses.
- French Proverb
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He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
- Welsh Proverb
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He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.
- Punjabi proverb, Translated by Gurinder Singh Mann
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He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
- Chinese proverb
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
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He who begins many things finishes but few.
- Italian Proverb
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He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
- Yiddish Proverb
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He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
- Chinese Proverb
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He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
- Chinese proverb
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He who divides and shares is left with the best share.
- Mexican Proverb
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He who does not venture has no luck.
- Mexican Proverb
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He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne.
- Assyrian Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him.
- Moorish Proverb
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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
- Persian Proverb
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He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.
- Arab Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.
- Moroccan Proverb
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He who hurries can not walk with dignity.
- Chinese Proverb
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He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
- Proverbs 1532 Bible
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He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
- Danish proverb
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He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
- Danish Proverb
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He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
- Spanish Proverb
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He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.
- Chinese Proverb
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He who is not impatient is not in love.
- Italian Proverb
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He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
- Dutch Proverb
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He who knows little quickly tells it.
- Italian Proverb
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He who knows nothing doubts nothing.
- Italian Proverb
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He who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles.
- Colombian Proverb
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He who puts up with insult invites injury.
- Jewish Proverb
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He who refuses to obey cannot command.
- Kenyan Proverb
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He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.
- American Proverb
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He who survives will see the outcome.
- French Proverb
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He who teaches children learns more than they do.
- German Proverb
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He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.
- Dutch Proverb
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He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.
- Nigerian Proverb
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He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
- Persian Proverb
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He who would leap high must take a long run.
- Danish proverb
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He who would leap high must take a long run.
- Danish Proverb
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He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.
- German proverb
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Her children arise up, and call her blessed.
- Proverbs 3128
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Here's to you ,as good as you are, And here's to me, as bad as I am But as good as you are, and as bad as I am, I am as good as you are, as bad as I am.
- Scottish Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both hands.
- Nigerian Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both hands.
- Nigerian Proverb
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Honey is sweet but bees sting.
- French Proverb
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Hope for miracles, but don't rely on one.
- Yiddish Proverb
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Hope is the nurse of misery.
- American Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
- Danish proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
- Spanish Proverb
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How many angels are there One - who transforms our live - is plenty.
- Proverb
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However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source.
- Nigerian Proverb
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However long the night, the dawn will break.
- African Proverb
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I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.
- Chinese Proverb
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I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.
- Chinese proverb
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning.
- Proverbs 7:17-18
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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.
- Chinese Proverb
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I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.
- Assyrian Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.
- Sufi Proverb
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I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble.
- Mennonite Proverb
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I will not criticize another until I have walked a mile in his mocassins.
- American Indian Proverb
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If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
- Yiddish Proverb
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If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
- Yiddish Proverb
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If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.
- Yiddish Proverb
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If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists.
- Jewish Proverb
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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
- Jewish Proverb
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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
- Jewish Proverb
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If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.
- Chinese Proverb
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If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.
- Chinese Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you If I live, we shall see.
- Danish proverb
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If not for fear, sin would be sweet.
- Jewish Proverb
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If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
- Yiddish Proverb
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If the camel once get his nose in a tent, the body will soon follow.
- Saudi Proverb
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If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.
- Jewish Proverb
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If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living.
- Jewish Proverb
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If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
- Assyrian Proverb
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If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
- Latin Proverb
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If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
- Latin Proverb
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If the young only knew; if the old only could.
- French Proverb
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If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.
- Chinese Proverb
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If there is no wind, row.
- Latin Proverb
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If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat.
- Proverbs Bible
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If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.
- Danish proverb
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If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.
- Haitian Proverb
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If you always give You will always have.
- Chinese Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.
- Assyrian Proverb
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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
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If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
- Chinese Proverb
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If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.
- Chinese Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read.
- Japanese Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read.
- Japanese proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read.
- Japanese Proverb
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If you bow at all, bow low.
- Chinese Proverb
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If you bow at all, bow low.
- Chinese Proverb
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If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing.
- Zimbabwean Proverb
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If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.
- Yiddish Proverb
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If you can't go over, you must go under.
- Jewish Proverb
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If you can't lick 'em, join 'em.
- American Proverb
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If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
- Chinese Proverb
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If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
- Chinese Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth if you have little, give of your heart.
- Arabic Proverb
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If you love it let it go. If it returns to you cherish it, if not it was never truly yours.
- Proverb
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If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
- Chinese Proverb
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If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
- African Proverb
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If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
- African Proverb
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If you run from a wolf, you may run into a bear.
- Lithuanian Proverb
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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
- Italian Proverb
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If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it.
- Chinese Proverb
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If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass
- American Indian Proverb
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If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.
- Japanese Proverb, Also quoted in the movie Rising Sun
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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
- Turkish proverb
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If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.
- Turkish Proverb
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If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow.
- Chinese Proverb
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If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if ypu employ him, don't suspect him.
- Chinese Proverb
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If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.
- Chinese Proverb
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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden;
if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
- English proverb
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If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
- Danish proverb
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If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
- Spanish Proverb
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If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
- Spanish Proverb
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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.
- New England Proverb
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If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.
- Yiddish Proverb
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If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.
- Haitian Proverb
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If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.
- Assyrian Proverb
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If you wish good advice, consult an old man.
- Romanian Proverb
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If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
- Yugoslav Proverb
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If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
- Yugoslav Proverb
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If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
- Yugoslav Proverb
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If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
- Yugoslav Proverb
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If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
- Oriental Proverb
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If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
- Oriental Proverb
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If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.
- Danish proverb
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If you would live healthy, be old early.
- Danish proverb
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If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.
- Danish proverb
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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
- French Proverb
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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
- English proverb
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In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy.
- Legal Proverb
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In God we trust all others must pay cash.
- American Proverb
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In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft.
- Chinese Proverb
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In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
- English Proverb
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In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.
- English Proverb
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In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives.
- Japanese Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.
- African Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.
- African Proverb
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It is a good answer that knows when to stop.
- Italian Proverb
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It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
- US Marine Proverb
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It is better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.
- Polish Proverb
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It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
- Old Chinese Proverb
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It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep.
- Tibetan Proverb
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It is easier to pull down than to build up.
- Latin Proverb
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It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.
- Greek Proverb
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It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.
- Arab Proverb
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It is honourable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused.
- Latin Proverb
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It is honourable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused.
- Latin Proverb
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It is not a fish until it is on the bank.
- Irish Proverb
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It is not enough to aim you must hit.
- Italian Proverb
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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
- Italian Proverb
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It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
- Assyrian Proverb
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It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
- Russian proverb
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It is the great north wind that made the Vikings.
- Scandinavian Proverb
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It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
- Latin Proverb
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It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
- Latin Proverb
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It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
- Latin proverb
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It takes a village to raise a child.
- African Proverb
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It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning.
- Persian Proverb
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It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.
- Irish Proverb
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It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain.
- German proverb
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Judge not the horse by his saddle.
- Chinese Proverb
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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
- Jewish Proverb
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Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
- Indian Proverb
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Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
- Indian Proverb
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Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
- Latin Proverb
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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
- Chinese Proverb
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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
- Chinese Proverb
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Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.
- American Proverb
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Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.
- Danish proverb
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Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
- Danish proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
- Chinese Proverb
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Let every fox take care of his own tail.
- Italian Proverb
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Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
- English Proverb
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Life is an onion and one peels it crying.
- French Proverb
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Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.
- Assyrian Proverb
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Life without a friend is death without a witness.
- Danish proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
- American Indian Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
- American Indian Proverb
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Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- American Indian Proverb
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Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
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Live to live and you will learn to live
- Portuguese Proverb
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Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
- Arab Proverb
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Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
- Danish proverb
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Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
- Latin Proverb
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Lomhlaba Unzima, Lohmhlaba. This world is a harsh place, this world.
- Zulu Proverb
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Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
- Jewish Proverb
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Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.
- Assyrian Proverb
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Love is a kind of military service.
- Latin Proverb
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
- Swedish Proverb
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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
- French Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
- French Proverb
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Love rules without rules.
- Italian Proverb
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Love tells us many things that are not so.
- Ukranian Proverb
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Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence.
- German proverb
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Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
- Chinese Proverb
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Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
- Jewish Proverb
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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
- Arab Proverb
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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
- Arab Proverb
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Man has responsibility, not power.
- Tuscarora Proverb
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Man has responsibility, not power.
- Tuscarora proverb
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Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora
- American Indian Proverb
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Man plans and God laughs.
- Hebrew Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.
- Zen Proverb
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Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.
- Chinese Proverb
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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
- Greek Proverb
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Many things are lost for want of asking.
- English Proverb
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Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech.
- Chinese Proverb
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May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
- Irish Proverb
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May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right
- Gypsy Proverb
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May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.
- Native American Proverb
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My son, give me thine heart...
- Proverbs 2326a Bible
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
- Danish proverb
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
- Spanish Proverb
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
- Spanish Proverb
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Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
- American Indian Proverb
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Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
- Chinese Proverb
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Never fall out with your bread and butter.
- English Proverb
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Never give a child a sword.
- Latin Proverb
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Never give a child a sword.
- Latin Proverb
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Never give advice in a crowd.
- Arab Proverb
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Never give advice unless asked.
- German proverb
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Never give advice unless asked.
- German Proverb
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Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.
- Italian Proverb
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Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
- Japanese Proverb
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Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
- Japanese Proverb
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Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
- American Proverb
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Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
- Jewish Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry.
- Chinese Proverb
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No answer is also an answer.
- German proverb
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No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.
- Jamaican Proverb
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No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
- Turkish Proverb
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No need to teach an eagle to fly.
- Greek Proverb
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No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
- Taoist Proverb
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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
- Danish proverb
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No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.
- French Proverb
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No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken.
- Danish proverb
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Not to know is bad not to wish to know is worse.
- African Proverb
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Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.
- Greek Proverb
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Old birds are hard to pluck.
- German proverb
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Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.
- Persian Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb
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Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb
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One boy is more trouble that a dozen girls.
- English Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
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One cannot both feast and become rich.
- Ashanti Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
- German proverb
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One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
- Chinese Proverb
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One drink is just right two is too many three are too few.
- Danish proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese proverb
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One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
- French Proverb
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One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
- Persian Proverb
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One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
- Chinese Proverb
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One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.
- Romanian Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
- Proverb
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Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.
- Indian Proverb
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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
- Chinese Proverb
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Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.
- Sicilian Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
- Sicilian Proverb
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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
- Hebrew Proverb
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Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers.
- American Proverb
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Patience is the key to paradise.
- Turkish Proverb
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People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.
- Jewish Proverb
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Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me.
- West African proverb
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Practice no vice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so.
- Chinese Proverb
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Praise youth and it will prosper.
- Irish Proverb
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Praise youth and it will prosper.
- Irish Proverb
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Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.
- French Proverb
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Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.
- English Proverb
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Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
- Chinese Proverb
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Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
- Chinese Proverb
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Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.)
- German proverb
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Ready money works great cures.
- French Proverb
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Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fools.
- Welsh Proverb
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Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
- Jewish Proverb
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Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
- American Proverb
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Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
- Bulgarian Proverb
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Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
- Bulgarian Proverb
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Set a thief to catch a thief.
- French Proverb
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Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.
- Swedish Proverb
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Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
- Danish proverb
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Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
- Zen Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
- Yiddish Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
- African Proverb
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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
- English Proverb
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Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.
- Chinese Proverb
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Speak of the devil and he appears.
- Italian Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
- Slovenian Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
- Slovenian Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
- Slovenian Proverb
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Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
- Biblical Proverb
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Spread the table and contention will cease.
- English Proverb
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Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
- Proverbs 12:15
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Stupidities that succeed are still stupidities.
- Yiddish Proverb
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Take a second look... It costs you nothing.
- Chinese Proverb
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Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
- Spanish Proverb
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Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
- Spanish Proverb
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Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
- Chinese Proverb
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Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
- Chinese Proverb
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Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
- American Indian Proverb
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Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
- Assyrian Proverb
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
- Swedish Proverb
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The anvil fears no blows.
- Romanian Proverb
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The beginning is the half of every action.
- Greek Proverb
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The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.
- Chinese Proverb
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The best armor is to keep out of range.
- Italian Proverb
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The best armor is to keep out of range.
- Italian Proverb
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The big thieves hang the little ones.
- Czech Proverb
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The big thieves hang the little ones.
- Czech Proverb
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The blind man is laughing at the bald head.
- Persian Proverb
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The church is near, but the way is icy, The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully.
- Ukranian Proverb
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The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned.
- Japanese Proverb
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The Devil finds work for idle hands.
- Proverb
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The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.
- Latin Proverb
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The dog that fetches will also carry. (Translation If someone reveals another's secrets to you, the same person will reveal your secrets to the world.)
- Latin Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.
- Portuguese Proverb
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The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.
- Danish proverb
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arab Proverb
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The eyes are the window of the soul.
- English Proverb
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The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.
- German proverb
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The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.
- Danish proverb
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The foolish man lies awake all night
Thinking of his many problems;
When the morning comes he is worn out
And his trouble is just as it was.
- Norse Proverb, Myth and Meaning page 72
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.
- Japanese Proverb
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The greater love is a mother's then comes a dog's then a sweetheart's.
- Polish Proverb
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The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
- Assyrian Proverb
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The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
- Jewish Proverb
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The journey is the reward.
- Taoist Proverb
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The lazy man always does twice the work.
(El bago siempre pasa double trabajo)
- Spanish Proverb
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The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
- Proverbs 12:19, The King James Bible
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The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
- Persian Proverb
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The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.
- Chinese Proverb
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The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.
- Chinese proverb
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The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.
- Chinese Proverb
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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- Chinese Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
- Chinese Proverb
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The nail that sticks out is hammered down.
- Japanese Proverb
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The net of the sleeper catches fish.
- Greek Proverb
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The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.
- Jewish Proverb
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The palest ink is better than the best memory.
- Chinese Proverb
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The palest ink is better than the best memory.
- Chinese Proverb
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
- Chinese Proverb, The Graduates Book of Wisdom
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
- Japanese Proverb
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The reverse side also has a reverse side.
- Japanese Proverb
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The reverse side also has a reverse side.
- Japanese Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
- Assyrian Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long.
- Danish proverb
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The shortest answer is doing.
- English Proverb
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The sinning is the best part of repentance.
- Arab Proverb
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The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
- Indian Proverb
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The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.
- Assyrian Proverb
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The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
- Arab Proverb
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The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.
- German proverb
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The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears.
- Arabic Proverb
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The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.
- Polish Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
- Chinese Proverb
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There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.
- Swahili Proverb
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There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.
- Swahili proverb
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There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn.
- Chinese Proverb
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There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.
- Chinese Proverb
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There is no flying without wings.
- French Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
- French Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing the shame lies in not finding out.
- Assyrian Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
- Russian proverb
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There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth.
- Venezuelan Proverb
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There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
- Proverbs 137 Bible
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There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.
- Sufi Proverb
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This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
- English Proverb
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Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.
- French Proverb
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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.
- Chinese Proverb
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Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
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Those who lose dreaming are lost.
- Australian Aboriginal Proverb
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Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
- Italian Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song.
- Swedish Proverb
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Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.
- Malayan Proverb
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Three Spaniards, four opinions.
- Danish proverb
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Three things it is best to avoid a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.
- Welsh Proverb
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Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
- Proverbs 2515 Bible
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Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
- Proverbs 25:15
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Time gives good advice.
- Maltese Proverb
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To a quick question, give a slow answer.
- Italian Proverb
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To a quick question, give a slow answer.
- Italian Proverb
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To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
- Chinese Proverb
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To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.
- Chinese Proverb
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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
- Nigerian Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things.
- German proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things.
- German proverb
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To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
- Greek Proverb
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To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
- Anonymous, Proverb
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To know and to act are one and the same.
- Samurai Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
- Chinese Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
- Chinese Proverb
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To live is well, but to live well is better
- Russian proverb
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To love is nothing. To be loved is something. To love and be loved is everything.
- Greek Proverb
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To own is to fear.
- Danish proverb
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To the good listener, half a word is enough.
- Danish proverb
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To the pure, all things are pure.
- Arabic Proverb
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To understand all is to forgive all.
- French Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.
- Danish proverb
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Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year.
- Danish proverb
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Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.
- French Proverb
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True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
- Hindustani Proverb
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True poverty does not come from God.
- Yiddish Proverb
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True strength lies in gentleness.
- Irish Proverb
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Trumpet in a herd of elephants crow in the company of cocks bleat in a flock of goats.
- Malayan Proverb
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Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
- Malayan Proverb
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Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
- Muslim Proverb
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Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
- Old Muslim Proverb
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.
- Proverbs 35 Bible
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Truth is the safest lie.
- Jewish Proverb
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Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.
- Yiddish Proverb
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Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.
- Proverbs 12:19, The Bible
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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
- Maori Proverb
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Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
- Scottish Proverb
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Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying.
- Irish Proverb
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Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.
- Romanian Proverb
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Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.
- Danish proverb
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Under capitalism man exploits man under socialism the reverse is true.
- Polish Proverb
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Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.
- Chinese Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
- African Proverb
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Use power to curb power.
- Chinese Proverb
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Use soft words and hard arguments.
- English Proverb
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Use soft words and hard arguments.
- English Proverb
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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
- Persian Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.
- Portuguese Proverb
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Vulnerant omnia, ultima necat. (All the hours wound you, the last one kills)
- Latin Proverb
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Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day.
- French Proverb
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Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
- French Proverb
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Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.
- Danish proverb
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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
- Australian Aboriginal Proverb
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We are no more than candles burning in the wind.
- Japanese Proverb
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We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
- English Proverb
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We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.
- American Indian Proverb
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We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it.
- French Proverb
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We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.
- English Proverb
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We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
- French Proverb
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What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
- Swedish Proverb
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What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
- Swedish proverb
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What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.
- Danish proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
- Scottish Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
- Scottish Proverb
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What one fool can do, another can.
- Ancient Simian Proverb
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What the people believe is true. Anishinabe
- American Indian Proverb
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What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.
- French Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
- Jewish Proverb
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What you give you get, ten times over.
- Yoruba Proverb
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When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
- English Proverb
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When a thing is done, advice comes too late.
- Romanian Proverb
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When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
- Hindustani Proverb
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
- Chinese Proverb
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When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
- African Proverb
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When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.
- French Proverb
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When one shuts one eye, one does not hear everything.
- Swiss Proverb
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When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
- Ethiopian Proverb
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When spiders unite they can tie down a lion.
- Ethiopian Proverb
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When the blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.
- Swedish Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
- Japanese Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
- Japanese Proverb
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When the fox preaches, look to the geese.
- German proverb
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When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.
- Nigerian Proverb
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When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
- African Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
- African Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
- African proverb
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When two quarrel, both are to blame.
- Dutch Proverb
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When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.
- French Proverb
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When you drink the water, remember the spring.
- Chinese Proverb
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When you drink the water, remember the spring.
- Chinese Proverb
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When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
- Czech Proverb
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When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
- Czech Proverb
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When you have completed 95 of your journey you are halfway there.
- Japanese Proverb
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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
- Albanian Proverb
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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
- Albanian Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
- Chinese Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
- Chinese Proverb
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When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.
- Chinese Proverb
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
- Cherokee Proverb
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Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.
- Danish proverb
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Where no counsel is, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
- Proverbs 1114 Bible Hebrew
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Where there are no swamps there are no frogs.
- German proverb
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Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important.
- Korean Proverb
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Where there is a sea there are pirates.
- Greek Proverb
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Where there is love, there is pain.
- Danish proverb
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Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
- African Proverb
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Where there is no vision, the people perish.
- Proverbs 2918 Bible
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Where there is no vision, the people perish.
- Proverbs 29:18
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Who begins too much accomplishes little.
- German proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little.
- German Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little.
- German proverb
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Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
- Italian Proverb
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Who lies for you will lie against you.
- Bosnian Proverb
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Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
- German proverb
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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
- Japanese Proverb
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Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher.
- German proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
- Spanish Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
- Spanish Proverb
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Whose bread I eat his song I sing.
- German proverb
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Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.
- Proverbs 47-8
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Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.
- Bible, Proverbs, 4:7
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With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.
- French Proverb
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With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too.
- Jewish Proverb
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With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
- Chinese Proverb
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With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
- Chinese proverb
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With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough.
- Chinese Proverb
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Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.
- Danish proverb
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
- Greek Proverb
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Words must be weighed, not counted.
- Polish Proverb
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Worries go better with soup than without.
- Yiddish Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup than without.
- Jewish Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup than without.
- Jewish Proverb
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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
- Proverb
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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
- English Proverb
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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
- English Proverb
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Years and sins are always more than owned.
- Italian Proverb
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Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.
- Sanskrit Proverb
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You can not write in the chimney with charcoal.
- Assyrian Proverb
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You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
- Rwandan Proverb
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You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.
- Jewish Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo
- American Indian Proverb
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You don't have to die heaven and hell are in this world too.
- Japanese Proverb
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You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
- American Proverb
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You may laugh at a friend's roof don't laugh at his sleeping accomodation.
- Kenyan Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.
- Colonial American proverb
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You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Irish Proverb
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Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.
- Danish proverb
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Your friend has a friend don't tell him.
- Jewish Proverb
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Za dvumya zaitsami pogonish'sya, ne odnogo ne poimaesh'. (If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.)
- Assyrian Proverb
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