The raven chides blackness.
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Don't stand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net
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Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.
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Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.
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As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.
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As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.
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Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.
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Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies
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To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under.
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Truth fears no trial.
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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.
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Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
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Proverbs bear age, and he who would do well may view himself in them as in a looking glass
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A half truth is a whole lie.
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You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
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Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
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The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.
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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
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Never repeat old grievances.
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Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.
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A nation's treasure is its scholars.
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As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
I collected some of their Proverbs.
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
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The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
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Use almost can change the stamp of nature.
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As the Arab proverb says, 'The dog barks and the caravan passes'. After having dropped this quotation, Mr. Norpois stopped to judge the effect...
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