One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.


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One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
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Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
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Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.
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Skeptics are never deceived.
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
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Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
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If you want the truth, ask a child.
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Honey is sweet but bees sting.
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He that seeks trouble never misses.
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
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From word to deed is a great space.
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Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.
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Better the foot slip than the tongue.
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Anger is a bad counselor.
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A crow is no whiter for being washed.
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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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Don't bark if you can't bite.
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Fine feathers make fine birds
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Every flow has its ebb.
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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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To compare is not to prove
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To compare is not to improve
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He who is near the church is often far from God
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He who survives will see the outcome.
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The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
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Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
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He who takes a partner takes a master
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A bad sheerer never had a good sickle.
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Appearances are deceiving.
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Who loves well, chastises well.
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Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve.
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A surgeon should be young a physician old.
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A hungry clown is half mad.
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Liars need good memories
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Set your sail to the wind.
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A good lawyer, a bad neighbour.
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A late Easter, a long cold spring.
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I know by my own pot how the others boil.
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A bad bush is better than an open field.
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This creature is very wicked. He defends himself when attacked.
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Ready money works great cures
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A white wall is the fool's paper
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One for sorrow; two for mirth; three for a wedding; four for a birth.
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Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
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Fear is a great inventor.
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Life is an onion and one peels it crying
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A good hater; a good lover
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear
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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
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He who is judge between two friends loses one of them
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Life works out - but not as you expect it
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience
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Love teaches even asses to dance
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There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men
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We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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Where there's music there can be love
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One is rated by others as he rates himself.
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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.
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There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich
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A black hen lays a white egg.
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No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give
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Ill seed, ill weed
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If it can lick, it can bite
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He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it
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More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
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One may go a long way after one is tired
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Everyone thinks his own burden heavy
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A year of snow, a year of plenty.
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Penny wise is often pound foolish.
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Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do
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Who is angry must be pleased again.
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting
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Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.
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Who punishes one threatens a hundred
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It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
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Don't find fault with what you don't understand
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There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.
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A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind
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They are not free who drag their chains after them
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It is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach
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Great talker, great liar.
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And old rat is a brave rat.
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To believe a thing impossible is to make it so
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What was hard to endure is sweet to recall
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Who never climbed, never fell.
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He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.
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He who makes excuses, accuses himself
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Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.
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Forewarned, forearmed.
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Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
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Skeptics are never deceived
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One turn serves another.
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The first step binds one to the second.
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