Thinking is the essence of wisdom


Persian Proverb

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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
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The drowning man is not troubled by rain.
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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake
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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
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Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
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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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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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A proverb is the child of experience.
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Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
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BIBLE
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The proverb is something musty.
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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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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Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
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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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A wicked book cannot repent.
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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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One of these days, is none of these days.
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
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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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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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Never say die.
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If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
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Patience is the key to paradise.
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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
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Riches have wings.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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