Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.


Turkish Proverb

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A brave man dies once, a coward a thousand times.
AFRICAN PROVERB
A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.
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I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.
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I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
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No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
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A best friend shares the good times and helps you out by listening during the bad ones.
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Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
JAPANESE PROVERB
For you, a thousand times over
KHALED HOSSEINI
I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
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The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
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A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe...
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I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
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Failures could kill our dreams ten times; fears could kill our dreams ten times hundred times.
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It was something I had done a thousand times,
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Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.
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If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.
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Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times.
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Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,
Then another thousand, then a second hundred,
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some t...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hun...
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We talked about this a hundred times ... ‘how do you stop a V-bed?’
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB
The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a ...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, / If he's not born in thee thy soul is still fo...
ANGELUS SILESIUS
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.
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I've wept for Haiti a thousand times over the years since my first trip during the Duvalier reig...
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But I speak for both of us a lot of times.
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ADOLF HITLER
I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
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FREDERICK SMITH
With God you will benefit at least a hundred times more than without Him
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We've obviously played a hundred times better than we did in the first half.
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I knew I could do it. I've done it a thousand times in practice.
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
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He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
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For the thirst to possess your love,
Is worth my blood a hundred times.
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The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter "O."
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.
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A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
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A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
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A Dreamer fails multiple times. A failure fails only once.
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A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
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Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.
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Even if you were to beat a fly a thousand times, it will never give you honey.
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We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.
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Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
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Even after seeing you a thousand times
Why is there this ache within my heart?
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I love you, a thousand times over. And I will never apologize for it.
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You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.
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Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
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Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen
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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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For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.
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Two watermelons cannot be held under one arm
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Beauty Passes, wisdom remains.
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An open door invites callers.
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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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An open mouth remains no hungry.
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size.
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Either drive this camel to pasture or leave the country.
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An illness comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce.
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Every sheep is hung by his own leg.
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Give nine, save ten
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He who borrows gets sorrows.
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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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Measure a thousand times and cut once
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No matter how tall a tree grows its leaves always fall to the ground.
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Where you were born is less important than how you live
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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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No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
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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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A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.
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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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A twig is bent while it is green.
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Study from new books but from old teachers
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Who gossips to you, will gossip of you
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He who has no bread has no authority
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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 devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil
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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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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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