Proverb, English
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Proverb, English
Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
Proverb, English
Death and Dying
An idle brain is the devil s workshop.
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Idleness
Never step over one duty to perform another.
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Duty
Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods.
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Cheating
The difference is wide that sheets will not decide.
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Decisions
He that seeks trouble never misses.
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Delinquency
Death always comes too early or too late.
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Death and Dying
While the doctors consult, the patient dies.
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Consultants
Tis money that begets money.
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Investments
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
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Debt
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
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Happiness
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
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Gentlemen
Gray hairs are death s blossoms.
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Hair
Don t dig your grave with your knife and fork.
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Food and Eating
You may poke a man s fire after you ve known him for seven years.
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Friends and Friendship
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
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Fools and Foolishness
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
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Fools and Foolishness
Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
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Friends and Friendship
A small family is soon provided for.
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Family
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
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Gambling
We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
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Health
A burnt child dreads the fire.
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Experience
Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.
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Goals
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
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Love
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Jest
A young man idle, an old man needy.
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Laziness
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
Proverb, English
Husbands
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
Proverb, English
Hope
Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.
Proverb, English
Learning
Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.
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Kindness
He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.
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Mothers
No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.
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Perfection
Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.
Proverb, English
Prayer
Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
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Obstinacy
A full cup must be carried steadily.
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Prosperity
The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.
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Obedience
Don t halt before you are lame.
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Perseverance
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
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Neighbors
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
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Poverty and The Poor
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
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Opportunity
The mob has many heads but no brains.
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Mobs
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
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Names
You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.
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Parents and Parenting
Foul water will quench fire.
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Necessity
When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.
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Rebellion
Still waters run deep.
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Silence
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English
Proverbs
There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.
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Time and Time Management
Time is the soul of business.
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Time and Time Management
To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
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Talkativeness
Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
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Sleep
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
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Trust
A good beginning makes a good end.
Proverb, English
Beginning
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
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Age and Aging
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
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Fallibility
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
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Heroes and Heroism
Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.
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Appearance
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
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Children
If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.
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Action
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
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Beauty
A stumble may prevent a fall.
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Adversity
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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Action
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
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Adversity
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
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Blindness
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
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Children
Use soft words and hard arguments.
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Argument
Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
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Widowhood
Where there s a will, there s a way.
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Will and Will Power
It takes all sorts to make a world.
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Variety
Two wrongs do not make a right.
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Wrong
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
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Virtue