Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.


Persian Proverb

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Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade
ARABIAN PROVERB
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If you are the big, big tree, we are the small axe, ready to cut you down!
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It is in the shade that you look up at a tree and appreciate its efforts.
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When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS...
To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
ANDREW COHEN
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
I saw a squirrel go in the big oak tree over there. That's his home. I'm worried that he won't be ab...
ANNA PETERSON
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch t...
RUMER GODDEN
Do not cut down on your expenses, Increase your income!
HONEYA
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide s...
EDWARD ABBEY
While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking t...
PRATIBHA PATIL
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.
LES BROWN
Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happines...
OSHO
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ADLAI STEVENSON
For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
WARREN BUFFETT
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
Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE
You can't just snatch the boy down out of that tree,
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He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a spee...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a ti...
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The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
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When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that ...
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LORA M. CECERE
Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
only after the last river has ben poisoned,
only a...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
If you do not sharpen your axe, it will take twice the same amount of time to cut down the same amou...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees...
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If you could chop down a tree -- any tree at all -- what kind of tree would it be?
BARBARA WALTERS
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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ANDREW WYATT
The drowning man is not troubled by rain.
PERSIAN PROVERB
Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake
PERSIAN PROVERB
Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
PERSIAN PROVERB
Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know h...
PERSIAN PROVERB
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
PERSIAN PROVERB
The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write inj...
PERSIAN PROVERB
Go and wake up your luck.
PERSIAN PROVERB
A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time.
PERSIAN PROVERB
There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
PERSIAN PROVERB
Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous
PERSIAN PROVERB
Treat others as you want them to treat you because what goes around comes around
PERSIAN PROVERB
Good poets are like angels of Heaven
PERSIAN PROVERB
Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.
PERSIAN PROVERB
In the hour of adversity be not without hope For crystal rain falls from black clouds
PERSIAN PROVERB
Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done
PERSIAN PROVERB
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
PERSIAN PROVERB
Thinking is the essence of wisdom
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PERSIAN PROVERB
By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair
PERSIAN PROVERB
Risk - If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know ho...
PERSIAN PROVERB
When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth
PERSIAN PROVERB
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the f...
PERSIAN PROVERB
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it pr...
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The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it p...
THOMAS SZASZ
And brilliant days come alive,

with you,

around

but the things we d...
ANDREA KOEHLE JONES
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JOHN LONSKI
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JOHN LONSKI
Cut that down by 400 percent...that helps you get responsive,
JACK WEINSTEIN
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BRUCE ROBINSON
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
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When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, whi...
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Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
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Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree wit...
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.
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LAURA CAMERON
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LEWIS CARROLL
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
MALCOLM X
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The drowning man is not troubled by rain.
PERSIAN PROVERB
Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake
PERSIAN PROVERB
Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
PERSIAN PROVERB
Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know h...
PERSIAN PROVERB
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
PERSIAN PROVERB
The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write inj...
PERSIAN PROVERB
Go and wake up your luck.
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A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time.
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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
PERSIAN PROVERB
Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous
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Treat others as you want them to treat you because what goes around comes around
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Good poets are like angels of Heaven
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Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.
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In the hour of adversity be not without hope For crystal rain falls from black clouds
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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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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
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Thinking is the essence of wisdom
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He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows ...
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By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair
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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 ho...
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When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the f...
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A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
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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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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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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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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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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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Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains,...
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He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
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No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
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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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There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and t...
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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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