Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade


Arabian Proverb

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Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
PERSIAN PROVERB
A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
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It is in the shade that you look up at a tree and appreciate its efforts.
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To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
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A tree that grows in the shade of another one will die small.
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NOTHING GROWS WELL IN THE SHADE OF A BIG TREE.
G. RAGUNATHAN.
He who is in the habit of sitting in the shade will not take an axe to the tree.
VIKRANT PARSAI
The One Lord gives shade to all beings.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
A tree does not fall at it's first cut
DUTCH PROVERB
God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB
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ANNA PETERSON
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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Do not cut down on your expenses, Increase your income!
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Leaves of the summer, lovely summer's pride,Sweet is the shade below your silent tree . . .
WILLIAM BARNES
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
CHARLES DICKENS
If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree
AFRICAN PROVERB
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
WARREN BUFFETT
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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In the summertime, if you walk down the street, and all you have is a palm tree shading you . . . th...
ALYCE ROBERTSON
Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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You can't just snatch the boy down out of that tree,
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The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe.
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only after the last river has ben poisoned,
only a...
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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but the things we d...
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ROBERT JORDAN
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
THOMAS J. PETERS
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
TOM PETERS
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SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
ARABIAN PROVERB
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ARABIAN PROVERB
Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly.
ARABIAN PROVERB
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
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Arrogance diminishes wisdom
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
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He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light
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The virtue of deeds lies in completing them.
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Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
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A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.
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He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light.
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The sinning is the best part of repentance.
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When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.
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When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
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He fasted for a whole year and then broke his fast with an onion
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The sinning is the best part of repentance
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain
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Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
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He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.
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A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without pro...
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The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry.
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The fruit of silence is tranquillity.
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At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend
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A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision
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Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
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The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and tho...
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Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly.
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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
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Arrogance diminishes wisdom
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
ARABIAN PROVERB
He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light
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The virtue of deeds lies in completing them.
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Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
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A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.
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He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light.
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The sinning is the best part of repentance.
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When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.
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When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
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He fasted for a whole year and then broke his fast with an onion
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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportun...
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The sinning is the best part of repentance
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain
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Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
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He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.
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A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without pro...
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The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry.
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The fruit of silence is tranquillity.
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At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend
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A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision
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Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
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Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies
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Live together like brothers and do business like strangers
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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are o...
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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When you heard that a mountain was moved, believe it; but when you hear that someone changed his cha...
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Examine what is said, not who speaks
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Keep your friends close - hold your enemies closer
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Ask the experienced rather than the learned
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All sunshine makes the desert
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Choose the neighbor before choosing the house.
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A horse of good breed is not dishonored by his saddle
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If the Giver gives you a hill to plough, don’t level it.
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When you are an anvil be patient; when a hammer, strike
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Compete, don't envy
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The willing contemplation of vice is vice
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One hand cannot applaud
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The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry
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He who plants thorns must never expect to gather roses
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He who eats alone chokes alone.
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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.
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A book is a garden carried in the pocket
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The best part of repentance is little sinning
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The world belongs to the rascals, Heaven belongs to the good
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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
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Eat whatever thou likest, but dress as others do
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If you have no power to prevail over someone, leave it to God.
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Diligence is a great teacher.
SAUDI ARABIAN PROVERB
The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing.
SAUDI ARABIAN PROVERB
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are o...
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A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
ARABIAN PROVERBS
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
ARABIAN PROVERBS
A friend is known when needed.
ARABIAN PROVERBS
None but a mule denies his family.
ARABIAN PROVERBS
Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
ARABIAN PROVERBS
If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.
ARABIAN PROVERBS
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
ARABIAN PROVERBS
When danger approaches, sing to it.
ARABIAN PROVERBS
Not Since Nineveh.
ARABIAN NIGHTS
Who will change old lamps for new? . . . new lamps for old?
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Open Sesame!
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To know and not to do is not to know
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
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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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The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
If you like it...
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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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It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
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Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
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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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Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
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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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He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
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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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Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know h...
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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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If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of...
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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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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it w...
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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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Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
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To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the p...
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