Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.


Danish proverb

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More Danish proverb

Unwilling service earns no thanks.
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Many have too much, but none enough.
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
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The nobler the blood the less the pride.
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An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
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Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood.
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Wise care keeps what it has gained.
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Slander expires at a good woman's door.
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Opportunity creates desire.
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There are no better masters than poverty and wants.
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
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Sight before hearsay.
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Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
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Fish and guests smell at three days old.
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Wise men do not quarrel with each other.
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The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.
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Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.
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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
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Your friendship is your needs answered.
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The road to a friend's house is never long.
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Blame is a lazy man's wages.
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Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.
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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
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Act honestly, and answer boldly.
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Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair.
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.
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Even a small star shines in the darkness.
DANISH PROVERB
He who would leap high must take a long run.
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He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
DANISH PROVERB
A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.
DANISH PROVERB
Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him
DANISH PROVERB
Ask advice only of your equals.
DANISH PROVERB
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
DANISH PROVERB
He is most cheated who cheats himself.
DANISH PROVERB
Bad is never good until worse happens.
DANISH PROVERB
A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.
DANISH PROVERB
If there is room in your hart there is room in your house
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He who feeds the hen ought to have the egg
DANISH PROVERB
Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.
DANISH PROVERB
It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood
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The greater the fear the nearer the danger
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He who flies proves himself guilty
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A bad hair cut is two people's shame
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It is cowardly to fly from a living enemy or to abuse a dead one
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Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them
DANISH PROVERB
They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them
DANISH PROVERB
The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage
DANISH PROVERB
God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests
DANISH PROVERB
Gifts should be handed, not thrown
DANISH PROVERB
A bad tree does not yield good apples
DANISH PROVERB
If the beard were all, goats could preach
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One should speak little with others and much with oneself
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Don't sail out farther than you can row back
DANISH PROVERB
No man limps because another is hurt
DANISH PROVERB
Speech is oft repented, silence never
DANISH PROVERB
No one can be caught in places he does not visit
DANISH PROVERB
Better no law than law not enforced
DANISH PROVERB
From praise, as from a shadow, a man is neither bigger nor smaller
DANISH PROVERB
He knows the water best who has waded through it
DANISH PROVERB
Better the child cry than the old man.
DANISH PROVERB
If you can keep yourself with poverty you have no need of riches
DANISH PROVERB
Tell nothing to thy friend which thy enemy may not know
DANISH PROVERB
A bad horse eats as much as a good one
DANISH PROVERB
He who gives to me teaches me to give.
DANISH PROVERB
He who would leap far must first take a long run
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Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad chil...
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Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart
DANISH PROVERB
Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
DANISH PROVERB
He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning
DANISH PROVERB
It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune
DANISH PROVERB
Bad is never good until worse happens
DANISH PROVERB
Act honestly, and answer boldly
DANISH PROVERB
The best advice is found on the pillow
DANISH PROVERB
Shared sorrow is half sorrow
DANISH PROVERB
Though your enemy is the size of an ant, regard him as an elephant
DANISH PROVERB
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill
DANISH PROVERB
A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent
DANISH PROVERB
He must be pure who would blame another
DANISH PROVERB
No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor
DANISH PROVERB
He who waits for a dead man's shoes is in danger of going barefoot
DANISH PROVERB
For ordinary humans, someone crazy is highlighting, for ordinary crazy, someone human is highlightin...
DANISH BARAKI
I will speak to my captain because Essex has played a big role in my development as a bowler.
DANISH KANERIA
I will make a decision on how many matches I should play for Essex after the Sri Lanka tour.
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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.
PROVERB
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.
PROVERB
One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB
Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB
A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB
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.
PROVERB
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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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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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.
PROVERB
Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB
Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB
Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB
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.
PROVERB
A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
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Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
PROVERB
Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB
He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB
There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB
Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB
Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
PROVERB
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
PROVERB
What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
PROVERB
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
PROVERB
He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB
We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB
One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB
Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB
Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
PROVERB
Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
PROVERB
Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB
Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
PROVERB
None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
PROVERB
Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
PROVERB
Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
PROVERB
When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
PROVERB
One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB
No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB
Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB
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.
PROVERB
Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
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