A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.


Turkish Proverb

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A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.
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Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
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Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.
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Love is an open wound that you hope never heals.
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Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
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Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals.
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LANA ABID ALRAHEEM
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
PILGRIMS
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
PEACE PILGRIM
A physical wound is cured with drugs,but an emotional wound is cured with time.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't...
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...Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape f...
JOHN GEDDES
Time cannot heal a wound if it keeps getting poked .
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If you have the trust of somebody, betraying that trust is like a knife in the back.After that knife...
GARY F EVANS...
Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.
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No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
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The more someone persists in their innocence, the larger the wound gets in the community. You can't ...
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Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Th...
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A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill.
SCOTTISH PROVERB
A nail in the wound.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
Youth is a mortal wound.
KATHERINE PATERSON
So that whether the pain of a wound in the groin (cæteris paribus) is greater than the pain of a wo...
LAURENCE STERNE
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your bod...
UNKNOWN
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your bod...
BUDDHA
This is a self-inflicted wound, ... but it'll heal up quickly.
RUTHERFORD SEYDEL
With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so...
RON CHERNOW
As she sustained wound after wound...the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was...
HIRO MASHIMA
a bleeding wound of southern Europe.
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI
Never wound a snake; kill it.
HARRIET TUBMAN
Anger is a wound gone mad.
VANNA BONTA
Had he healed one wound only to open another?
MARY BALOGH
The grief sometimes gets so heavy that it's physically hard to breathe. The wound never heals. Littl...
KARLA STAUBLE
God gave us a variety of ways to get hurt out and do it clean. Blood cleans a wound. Tears clean a d...
KRISTEN ASHLEY
What wound did ever heal but my degrees?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We're grateful for that, but it's a Band-Aid on a very large wound.
BILL POWERS
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
JESSAMYN WEST
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever
JESSAMYN WEST
It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing.
MARTY RUBIN
...A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor.
RACHEL DONALDSON JACKSON
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Hate wound the heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions
ELLIS PETERS
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
ELLIS PETERS
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
He jests at scars that never felt a wound
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills
SPANISH PROVERB
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE
Lighter is the wound foreseen.
CATO THE ELDER
Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes
CHER
I have chills. I've been wound up all week.
GARY SCELZI
Time heals all wounds.
STEPHEN KING
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
UNKNOWN
Do not despise an insignificant enemy or a slight wound
GERMAN PROVERB
It looks like it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
DAVID PROCOPIO
You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
DAVE WINFIELD
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JONAH LOMU
A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
STEVE MARABOLI
Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
THOMAS FULLER
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
OSCAR WILDE
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
LAURENCE STERNE
The firefighters were very wound up.
BEATRICE MONGO
an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
JOHN ASH
I think it's an open wound.
PAM ASCANIO
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DEREK THELER
He wishes that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.
STEPHEN CRANE
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON
There's dignity in suffering Nobility in pain But failure is a salted wound That burns and burns aga...
MARGERY ELDREDGE HOWELL
But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound.
EDWARD MOORE
Ideals are dangerous things.  Realities are better.  They wound, but they’re better. LADY
OSCAR WILDE
She can kill with a smile,She can wound with her eyes.
BILLY JOEL
Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity.
ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
BUDDHA
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
President Fox left bleeding from his wound,
HUGO CH
A number of individuals were injured. One Metropolitan Campus student received a gunshot wound.
MICHAEL ADAMS
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FUYUMI SORYO
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CAROL WHITE
Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict.
UNKNOWN
God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
Insecurity is the inward wound of rudeness received.
HERMAN SPANJER
I doubt the masculinity of a man whose manliness is reflected in a women's wound.
AKIRA MEHTA
All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation.
RAMMAN KENOUN
This small addition of staff is like putting a Band-Aid over a gaping wound.
LAURA HAIGHT
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a wound that aches yet isn’t felt,
an always disconten...
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DAN FICHTER
Forgiveness does not mean forgetting. Forgiveness does not mean that the scars stopped hurting. They...
JOHN B. BEJO
It is a gaping wound, whenever one touches it and removes the bandages and plasters of daily life.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.
PAUL NEWMAN
All the hours wound you, the last one kills
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If anyone gets angry with another, they wound me to the quick.
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Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own.
LINDA BERDOLL
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It's a perpetual wound.
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Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.
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An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
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Ideals are dangerous things.  Realities are better.  They wound,
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Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain.
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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
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Remain hungry but do not start begging.
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Roses grow where a teacher hits.
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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
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Thorns and roses grow on the same tree.
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Every sheep is hung by his own leg.
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If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, be strong.
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Activity breeds prosperity.
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A man is as wise as his head, not his years.
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Do what your teacher says but not what he does.
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He who does evil to others, does it to himself.
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No matter how tall a tree grows its leaves always fall to the ground.
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It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.
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Ability has no school.
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A wise man does his own work.
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A man is judged by his work.
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Once a friend, always a friend.
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At table keep a short hand; in company keep a short tongue.
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Fear an ignorant man more than a lion
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Stairs are climbed step by step.
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Whoever the heart loves, she is the beauty.
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Kind words will unlock an iron door
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One already wet does not feel the rain.
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Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
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A good companion shortens the longest road.
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A kind word warms a man throughout three winters.
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Two captains will sink the ship
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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one
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No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back
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Those who know do not talk; those who talk do not know.
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A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.
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The miser and the open-handed spend the same in the long run.
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I can't say I hate cats, but holy cow, dogs are a horse of another color.
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Who gossips to you will gossip of you.
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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
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A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.
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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
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He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it
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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
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A dog that intends to bite does not bear its teeth.
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A pound is sixteen ounces wherever you go.
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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb
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Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.
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Who buys cheap buys dear.
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One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.
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A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.
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Guests bring good luck with them.
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A weapon is an enemy even to its owner
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He that falls by himself never cries.
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He gives twice who gives quickly.
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If skill could be gained by watching, every dog would become a butcher.
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Study from new books but from old teachers
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Where military service begins, logic ends.
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Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love
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Patience is the key to paradise
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A red apple invites stones.
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Before you love, Learn to run through the snow Leaving no footprint
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Whoever is fond of cream should take the cow around with him.
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.
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Eat and drink with your friends but do not trade with them.
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There is an uphill for every downhill, and a downhill for every uphill.
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A tribulation is better than a hundred warnings.
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A heavy stone is not easily moved.
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Kiss the hand which you cannot wring.
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A hungry stomach has no ears.
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A small key opens big doors.
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Better a wise foe than a foolish friend.
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Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.
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The time to make friends is before you need them.
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Short judgments make long friends.
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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
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From small beginnings come great things.
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Some will, some don't, so what!
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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
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Try and trust will move mountains.
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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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All sins cast long shadows.
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Simplicity is the seal of truth.
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A silent mouth is melodious.
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Silence implies consent.
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Shame is worse than death.
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God likes help when helping people.
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One is rated by others as he rates himself.
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Attack is the best form of defense.
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Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
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A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
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It is better to be safe than sorry.
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Better to be safe than sorry.
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Kings have many ears and eyes.
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A soft answer turneth away wrath.
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Cunning surpasses strength.
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What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
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Two great talkers will not travel far together.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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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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You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
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Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
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Respect starts with yourself.
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He who is near the Church is often far from God.
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
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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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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
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Force without forecast is to little avail.
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