A heavy burden does not kill on the day it is carried.


Kenyan Proverb

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Better to be safe than sorry.
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A soft answer turneth away wrath.
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Cunning surpasses strength.
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A good speaker makes a good liar.
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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
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When at a loss how to go on, cough.
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Speak when you are spoken to.
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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
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The less people think the more they talk.
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Speak little and to the purpose.
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Speak and the man shall be shown.
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The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
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A little body often harbors a great soul.
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Life without a friend is death without a witness.
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The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
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What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
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Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
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Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
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He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
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Rest breeds rust.
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Respect starts with yourself.
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An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
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Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
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Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
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Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
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Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
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By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
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The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
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Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
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A wicked book cannot repent.
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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
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Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
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Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
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There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
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Live to live and you will learn to live.
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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
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No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
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What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
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He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
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We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
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One of these days, is none of these days.
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Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
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Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
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Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
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Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
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Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
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None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
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No one can pray well, but those who live well.
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Short prayers reach heaven.
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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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Practice is the best master.
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He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
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A poor man is all schemes.
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When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
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Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
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There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
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Why kill time when one can employ it.
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Forever is a long bargain.
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The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
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Time and I against any two.
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The longest day soon comes to an end.
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Soon enough is well enough.
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Now is the watchword of the wise.
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Lost time is never found again.
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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
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In teaching others we teach ourselves.
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He who does not research has nothing to teach.
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He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
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Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
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Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
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Who has a trade may go anywhere.
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No one was ever lost on a straight road.
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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
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He that falls by himself never cries.
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More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
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Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
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That which proves too much, proves nothing!
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When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
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If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
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The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
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Never say die.
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If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
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Peace with a club in hand is war.
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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
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Rome was not built in a day.
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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
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Patience is the key to paradise.
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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
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Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
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That which is escaped now is pain to come.
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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
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Riches have wings.
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
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Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
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No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
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The gods sell all things at a fair price.
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Something you don't want is dear at any price.
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We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
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Necessity unites.
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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
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It is the truth that irritates a person.
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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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Time tries truth.
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Tell the truth and then run.
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Truth is the daughter of time.
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Truth fears nothing but concealment.
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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
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Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
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