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Proverb
Proverb
Courtesy
It s tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground.
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Concentration
The end justifies the means.
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Expediency
Attack is the best form of defense.
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Defense
He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.
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Common Sense
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
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Crime and Criminals
Great thieves punish little ones.
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Crime and Criminals
In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
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Crime and Criminals
How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best.
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Dress
From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.
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Communication
Better a living dog than a dead lion.
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Discretion
You cannot be lost on a road that is straight.
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Direction
Step by step one goes very far.
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Direction
It is better to run back than run the wrong way.
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Direction
People lend only to the rich.
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Borrowing
First deserve then desire.
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Desire
Measure three times before you cut once.
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Detail
The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.
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Charity
Speak the truth and shame the devil.
Proverb
Devil
Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
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Borrowing
Quick to borrow is always slow to pay.
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Borrowing
Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.
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Confession
The hardest work of all is to do nothing.
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Idleness
He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers.
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Idleness
Custom is a tyrant.
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Custom
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
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Death and Dying
We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.
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Death and Dying
Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.
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Desire
Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.
Proverb
Enemies
Some have been thought brave because they didn t have the courage to run away.
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Courage
Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.
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Debt
Curses are like chickens, they always come home.
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Curses
Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
Proverb
Correction
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Proverb
Deception
Out of debt, out of danger.
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Debt
Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
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Correction
Conscience is the dog that can t bite, but never stops barking.
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Conscience
Caution is the parent of safety.
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Caution
When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.
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Business
Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
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Correction
There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.
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Certainty
A wicked book cannot repent.
Proverb
Books - Reading
Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
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Correction
When difficulties are overcome they begin blessing.
Proverb
Difficulties
Who ever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path.
Proverb
Confidence
The first step toward greatness is to be honest.
Proverb
Greatness
We all end up in a single bed sooner or later.
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Cooperation
When a fox preaches, take care of your geese.
Proverb
Caution
A fool and his money are soon parted.
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Fools and Foolishness
The heart that truly loves never forgets.
Proverb
Heart
Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero s heart.
Proverb
Heart
The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.
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Food and Eating
The face is the index of the mind.
Proverb
Faces
No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.
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Heart
Seven s a banquet nine a brawl.
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Food and Eating
Where one is wise two are happy.
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Happiness
Much meat, much disease.
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Food and Eating
Hunger is a good cook.
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Food and Eating
Gluttony kills more than the sword.
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Food and Eating
They say is often a great liar.
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Lies and Lying
Many lick before they bite.
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Flattery
That which is escaped now is pain to come.
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Pain
The fool is always beginning to live.
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Fools and Foolishness
Think of many things, do only one.
Proverb
Focus
He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
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Fear
That fear may reach all, punish but few.
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Fear
Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains.
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Fights and Fighting
Fire is never a gentle master
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Fire
If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.
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Flattery
A scalded cat dreads cold water.
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Fear
Gifts dissolve rocks.
Proverb
Gifts
The time to make friends is before you need them.
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Friends and Friendship
Force without forecast is to little avail.
Proverb
Force
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
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Habit
Grief is light that is capable of counsel.
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Grief
Tomorrow never comes.
Proverb
Future
Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.
Proverb
Gambling
Precept guides, but example draws.
Proverb
Example
Short judgments make long friends.
Proverb
Friends and Friendship
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.
Proverb
Example
Weave in faith and God will find the thread.
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Faith
Don t cross the bridge till you come to it.
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Expectation
Gifts make their way through stone walls.
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Gifts
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
Proverb
Giving
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
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Gossip
One s best fortune, or, their worst is their spouse.
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Fortune
Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune.
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Fortune
It is better to finish something than begin.
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Goals
Man does what he can, God does what he will.
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God
Practice what you preach.
Proverb
Example
Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.
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Hatred
Forgive and forget.
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Forgiveness
Never repeat old grievances.
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Forgiveness
The eye is the mirror of the soul.
Proverb
Eyes
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
Proverb
Friends and Friendship
Six feet of earth make all men equal.
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Equality
A reconciled friend is a double enemy.
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Forgiveness
What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.
Proverb
Eyes
Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.
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Forgiveness
Some evils are cured by contempt.
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Hatred
When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.
Proverb
Failure
A friend is someone who doesn t like the same people you do.
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Friends and Friendship
Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
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Friends and Friendship
Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
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Friends and Friendship
Love laughs at locksmiths.
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Love
Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
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Love
The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.
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Law and Lawyers
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
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Praise
The more laws the less justice.
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Law and Lawyers
Even rabbits insult an dead lion.
Proverb
Insults
He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
Proverb
Procrastination
Among the blind the one eyed is king.
Proverb
Leaders and Leadership
A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties.
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Loyalty
Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.
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Insults
Where the law is uncertain there is no law.
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Law and Lawyers
Luck is the idol of the idle.
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Luck
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.
Proverb
Love
One lives in the world s memory only by what they have done in the world s behalf.
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Memory
Quit not certainty for hope.
Proverb
Hope
Kings have many ears and eyes.
Proverb
Kings
Who knows most believes least.
Proverb
Knowledge
Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.
Proverb
Marriage
Never tell your story to a deaf man.
Proverb
Listening
Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.
Proverb
Love
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life s pleasures is like a blacksmith s bellows. He breathes, but does not live.
Proverb
Life and Living
He has hard work who has nothing to do.
Proverb
Leisure
Those that marry for money sell their liberty.
Proverb
Marriage
Nature surpasses nurture.
Proverb
Nature
Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.
Proverb
Marriage
God helps them that help themselves.
Proverb
Self-reliance
Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite.
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Hypocrisy
Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.
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Law and Lawyers
A light heart lives long.
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Life and Living
A hundred years cannot repair a moment s loss of honor.
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Honor
Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.
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Life and Living
Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.
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Life and Living
Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.
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Manners
Civility costs nothing.
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Manners
Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty.
Proverb
Mastery
The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains.
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Letters
The multitude is always wrong.
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Masses
You ll repent if you marry, and repent if you don t.
Proverb
Marriage
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
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Praise
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
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Laziness
Sloth is the key to poverty.
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Laziness
We learn by teaching.
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Learning
A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
Proverb
Hope
Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Proverb
Insanity
He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.
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Medicine
Quackery has no friend like gullibility.
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Medicine
Kind words are worth much and they cost little.
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Kindness
A hungry stomach has no ears.
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Listening
Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows.
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Honor
Lawyers and painters can soon make what s black, white.
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Law and Lawyers
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
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Ignorance
What you don t know can t hurt you .
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Ignorance
Marrying is easy, it s housework that s hard.
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Marriage
Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
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Law and Lawyers
An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag.
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Leaders and Leadership
Possession is nine tenths of the law.
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Law and Lawyers
Birds of a feather flock together.
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Loyalty
Let not turn fun to mischief.
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Moderation
Time tries truth.
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Truth
Tell the truth and then run.
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Truth
When money is taken freedom is forsaken.
Proverb
Money
Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
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Merit
One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
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Prayer
Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.
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Mind
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
Proverb
Philosophers and Philosophy
If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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Peace
When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
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Poverty and The Poor
When we can t find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
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Peace
Truth is the daughter of time.
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Truth
There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune.
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Misfortunes
Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
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Poverty and The Poor
Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
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Progress
We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
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Procrastination
One of these days, is none of these days.
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Procrastination
He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
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Promises
Don t spur a willing horse.
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Motivation
There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
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Promises
Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.
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Opportunity
Rome was not built in a day.
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Patience
No one can pray well, but those who live well.
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Prayer
The poor man s budget is full of schemes.
Proverb
Money
Truth fears nothing but concealment.
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Truth
Persuasion is better than force.
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Persuasion
That which proves too much, proves nothing!
Proverb
Persuasion
Pride and poverty don t get along, but often live together.
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Pride
No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
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Price
When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
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Persuasion
The back of one door is the face of another.
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Opportunity
The Irish ignore anything they can t drink or punch.
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Nationalities and Nationalism
Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.
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Men
Short prayers reach heaven.
Proverb
Prayer
Ownership is to fear.
Proverb
Ownership
A mother s heart is always with her children.
Proverb
Mothers
If you can t get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it s confidential.
Proverb
Persuasion
Offenders never pardon.
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Mercy
Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
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Patience
Hedges between keep friendships green.
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Neighbors
The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
Proverb
Popularity
Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.
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Power
Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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Pleasure
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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Power
Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
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Patience
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
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Perseverance
Never say die.
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Perseverance
The longest day soon comes to an end.
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Time and Time Management
Soon enough is well enough.
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Time and Time Management
Now is the watchword of the wise.
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Time and Time Management
Lost time is never found again.
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Time and Time Management
To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under.
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Teachers and Teaching
Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
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Teachers and Teaching
The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
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Spirit and Spirituality
In teaching others we teach ourselves.
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Teachers and Teaching
What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.
Proverb
Success
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
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Tenderness
He who does not research has nothing to teach.
Proverb
Teachers and Teaching
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.
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Teachers and Teaching
Riches have wings.
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Riches
Speak when you are spoken to.
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Speakers and Speaking
Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
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Speakers and Speaking
The less people think the more they talk.
Proverb
Speakers and Speaking
Quicker by taking more time.
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Quality
Battle doesn t need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose.
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Purpose
Pay beforehand if you would have your work poorly done.
Proverb
Quality
The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
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Soul
Simplicity is the seal of truth.
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Simplicity
Speak little and to the purpose.
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Speakers and Speaking
Could everything be done twice it would be done better.
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Quality
The silent dog is the first to bite.
Proverb
Silence
Silence implies consent.
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Silence
The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
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Responsibility
Speak and the man shall be shown.
Proverb
Speakers and Speaking
Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
Proverb
Travel and Tourism
A little body often harbors a great soul.
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Soul
Respect starts with yourself.
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Respectability
How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
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Rest
If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn t be done.
Proverb
Age and Aging
Danger past, God forgotten.
Proverb
Danger
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
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Anger
A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.
Proverb
Danger
Never find fault with the absent.
Proverb
Absence
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
Proverb
Children
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Proverb
Anger
No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.
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Anger
The gods sell all things at a fair price.
Proverb
Cost
A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.
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Discipline
Children and drunks always speak the truth.
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Children
A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
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Children
Neither blame or praise yourself.
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Blame
The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them.
Proverb
Blame
Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
Proverb
Airplane and Aviation
Slow help is no help.
Proverb
Aid and Assistance
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
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Action
Try and trust will move mountains.
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Action
The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.
Proverb
Anger
Good advice is beyond all price.
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Advice
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Behavior
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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Behavior
Contraries are cured by contraries.
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Behavior
No one is worse, for knowing the worst of themselves.
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Faults
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
Proverb
Character
If a job s worth doing, it s worth doing well.
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Effort
Soft words win hard hearts.
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Argument
Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.
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Argument
One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
Proverb
Character
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
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Character
Give neither counsel or salt till you are asked for it.
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Counsel
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
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Advice
Old age though despised, is coveted by all.
Proverb
Age and Aging
All things are becoming to good people.
Proverb
Appearance
The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride.
Proverb
Animals
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.
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Absence
The counsel you would have another keep, first keep yourself.
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Counsel
The best counselors are the dead.
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Counsel
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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Age and Aging
An eagle does not catch flies.
Proverb
Animals
The best mirror is an old friend.
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Appearance
Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.
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Agreement
From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.
Proverb
Ancestry
By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome
Proverb
Evil
Wide will wear, but tight will tear.
Proverb
Appearance
A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.
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Contentment
Something you don t want is dear at any price.
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Cost
A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
Proverb
Wealth
Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
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Victory
A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
Proverb
Wives
Too much zeal spoils everything.
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Zeal
As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
Proverb
Wealth
A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
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Work
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
Proverb
Work
Plaster thick, some will stick.
Proverb
Work
The noblest vengeance is to forgive.
Proverb
Vengeance
Zeal is like fire: it needs both feeding and watching.
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Zeal
When the will is ready the feet are light.
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Will and Will Power
By others faults the wise correct their own.
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Wisdom
You can t take it with you when you go.
Proverb
Wealth
Who wills the end, wills the means.
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Will and Will Power
Want is the mother of industry.
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Work
The one who wills is the one who can.
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Will and Will Power
No wonder lasts over three days.
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Wonder
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
Proverb
Wish and Wishing
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