We are no more than candles burning in the wind


Japanese Proverb

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We are nothing here but just candles burning in the wind.
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Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.
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Fall down seven times, stand up eight.
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The gods only laugh when people ask them for money.
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If he works for you, you work for him.
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Fall seven times, stand up eight.
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
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When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
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You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice.
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A good husband is healthy and absent.
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Clouds over the moon, a storm over blossoms
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Duty is heavy as a mountain but
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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.
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Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.
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The feet are the gateway to 10,000 illnesses.
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When a bonsai stops growing, you know it's dead.
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One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.
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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.
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A kind word can warm three months of winter.
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If you want to know what's happening in the market, ask the market.
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The nail that stands out will be hammered down.
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.
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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.
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sickness is a thing of the spirit
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
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Fix the problem, not the blame.
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I will master something, then the creativity will come.
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Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.
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Virtue is not knowing but doing
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He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.
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An excess of courtesy is discourtesy
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If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all
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When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there.
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Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
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One kind word can warm three winter months.
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Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.
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Money grows on the tree of persistence
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The reverse side also has a reverse side.
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In a quarrel, the higher voiced person will win.
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If you believe everything you read, better not read.
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Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear.
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Fall down seven times, get up eight.
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Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
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Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard.
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Art is the illusion of spontaneity.
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
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All married women are not wives
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All married women are not wives.
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Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy
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When the cat mourns for the mouse do not take her seriously
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The nail that sticks up gets hammered down
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It is better to be ignorant than mistaken
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The inarticulate speak longest
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A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle
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When you buy a vase cheap, look for the flaw; when a man offers favors, look for the motive
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It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief
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Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade
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None of us are as smart as all of us
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Action without vision is dangerous.
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Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass
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If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger
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To teach is to learn.
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Not to know is to be a Buddha
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The tongue is more to be feared than the sword
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A good sword is the one left in its scabbard
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A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice
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In wealth, many friends; in poverty, not even relatives.
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It is better to be the head of chicken than the rear end of an ox
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When you're thirsty it's too late to think about digging a well
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse
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A helpful companion is as good as a coach.
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Even a sheet of paper has two sides
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The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone
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Adversity is the foundation of virtue
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty
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Do you need proof of God? Does one light a torch to see the sun?
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Where there is no antagonist, you cannot quarrel.
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Sleeping people can't fall down
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive disenchanted
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Fall seven times and stand up eight.
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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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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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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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