A donkey usually does not hit his foot twice to the same stone.


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To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
It is disgraceful to stumble against the same stone twice
GREEK PROVERB
We couldn't hit that little 7- or 8-foot shot for anything. We've played down here twice and have ha...
HAL MCMANUS
Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well that’s because he’s a guy. But if he does the ...
DR. SEUSS
We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH PROVERB
An experienced loner does not fall for the same trick twice.
WATARU WATARI
It wasn't a problem for us to score three times against the Dutch. It was a problem not to concede m...
KAREL BRUCKNER
That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERBS
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -Spanish proverb.
SPANISH PROVERB
As the Chinese proverb goes, 'Real gold does not fear the test of fire.
CHIN-NING CHU
He injured his knee and ankle at the same time. When he was scrambling, [he] came up into the line, ...
STEVE ANTONOPULOS
If someone gets us going, we usually do all right, and if no one does by the sixth or seventh, we us...
JASON LANE
Sin is a stone which does not float.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
He (Dirks) made some bad pitches to the good hitters and usually he does the opposite. He makes a mi...
SMOKE LAVAL
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you ...
NEIL GERSHENFELD
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
The records don't say. Usually, when a farmer found a worm or a bug, he squished it with his fingers...
DAVID NIELSEN
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you ...
NEIL GERSHENFELD
Trevor pitched real well. He struck out 10 and he's usually ahead in the count and when he does thro...
CRAIG LAMBERT
I usually try not to hit it over the fence. The first pitch, I look for it to be perfect and I just ...
BRIANNE FARMER
That was a heck of a shot that Juan hit. You can't hit a ball any harder than that. I mean that was ...
RICH BRANDS
I could hit it twice and not hit it out to right-center in our place, ... Here (Denver) it's a defin...
KHALIL GREENE
If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.
KOREAN PROVERB
If you just take your foot off the gas a little bit you will find the Honda that it not a hybrid wil...
ALEX TAYLOR
It is not possible to step twice into the same river
GREEK PROVERB
I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
VANESSA BAYER
I've actually seen twice during the same round, two different guys hit the ball backwards ... and it...
JUSTIN LEONARD
Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJ...
DIPLO
It was a really strange series of events. His foot hit the sled, and it felt like it just came to a ...
PAVLE JOVANOVIC
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
HERACLITUS
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS
Butcher the donkey after it finished his job on the mill.
CHINESE PROVERBS
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is a...
SENECA
I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if ...
JODI PICOULT
When his mother asks him to do something, he usually does it.
BETTY BLAKE
It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a t...
SUZY KASSEM
Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.
STEPHANIE PERKINS
A charity donkey is where you sponsor a donkey in a sanctuary and give them three pounds a month to ...
RICHARD C. ARMITAGE
He played awesome. This is the year he needs to break out and believe in his game. I believe he hit ...
JAMES ARMSTRONG
We need a donkey to go in between Bondo [Jeremy Bonderman] and [Mike] Maroth, ... An expensive donke...
DMITRI YOUNG
Some of the prongs are not down on the stone. The stone setter didn't finish his job.
CATHERINE LEE
They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
BIBLE
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging the...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging the...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit t...
VERNON WELLS
If you do not have brains you follow the same route twice.
GREEK PROVERB
'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginnin...
JON LANDAU
Jason does what Jason does. Jason can hit a few outside shots, and he can take the ball to the baske...
BOB LOCKART
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same...
HERACLITUS
A donkey that goes to Mecca will not come back as a pilgrim.
VIKRANT PARSAI
I'm glad my son does not have to witness that the very people that he thought he could ride and die ...
CHRISTOPHER WALLACE
For a second after Aslan had breathed upon him the stone lion looked just the same. Then a tiny stre...
C.S. LEWIS
A single donkey is a lonely donkey. They are herd animals and want to be with a herd.
CINDY JOHNSON
There was a big stone in the road and bang... I hit it,
SEBASTIEN LOEB
He got hit in the face with that skunk twice,
BILL PARCELLS
I knew if I didn't get hit, I could sneak my foot in,
DWAYNE JARRETT
Never play a thing the same way twice
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
To carry his load without resting, not to be bothered by heat or cold and always be content: these t...
INDIAN PROVERB
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
You can't usually fall twice and still make an Olympic team. Until I went down, though, I'd been doi...
MATT SAVOIE
Product usually becomes tight when they go from one product to another. But it's not a big deal. We ...
TEX PITFIELD
Cuba doesn't lose twice to the same team!
JOSE RAMIREZ
Successful is a sticker. A successful sticker usually does not stick to a failurefill loner.
APURVA GAGLANI
God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear t...
MAX LUCADO
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he cri...
FREDERIC RAPHAEL
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he cr...
FREDERIC RAPHAEL
The eagle was one of the best shots I have ever hit. I had 242 yards to the flag, and I hit a 5-wood...
SIMON DYSON
Everybody was there. A bachelor aunt or uncle. You would all come to the table, even some stone-deaf...
REYNOLDS PRICE
I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch...
JOHN GREEN
If you do not sharpen your axe, it will take twice the same amount of time to cut down the same amou...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No...
ROBERT BROWNING
Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made...
URSULA K. LEGUIN
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
This will end the mythology of the dumb little Dutch boy with his stupid finger in the dike to save ...
LOUIS VAN GESTEREN
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS
It is concerning to me that the same thing happened twice at the same location.
TIM MANNING
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
EDWARD PHELPS
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
EDWARD J. PHELPS
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
E. J. PHELPS
Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
VERONICA ROTH
Clearly, an AAV (Amtrac) does not offer the same protection a tank does,
CARTER HAM
He's what I call a professional hitter. When he gets his pitch, he usually does damage with it.
CHAD KREUTER
Things never happen the same way twice.
C.S. LEWIS
Great mind thinks the same way twice
SUMAN MITRA
Never cry for the same person twice.
MANOJ VAZ
I never teach the same course twice.
ELIE WIESEL
I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-...
RACHEL LAMBERT MELLON
You used to ride a donkey, don't?
COLIN GREEN
I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.
JODI PICOULT
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a sci...
LEWIS MUMFORD
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a sci...
LEWIS MUMFORD
No one hit me. My foot planted, and my knee just turned to the side.
LEE CAMPBELL

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Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.
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He sleeps with the bride.
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It are not the bad apples that wasps eat.
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One should not hatch all eggs under the same hen.
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The soup is never eaten as hot as it was served.
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One should not wake a sleeping dog.
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One can bend young twigs, not old trees.
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You should shave your sheep when they have wool.
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It is better to confess under the gallows, then not at all
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The geese are fed, but you have to pluck them
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It is better to remove the beam from your eye, before you remove the splinter from someone elses.
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Hunger makes raw beans taste sweet.
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To eat from both shores
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You can't bake an omelet without breaking an egg
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Cucumbers are like virgins, they do not keep long
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Neighbours grass is always greener.
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Visitors and fish, remain fresh for 3 days.
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He is in beans, but picks peas
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He has a hart of gold
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If Moses is not coming to the mountain, then the mountain will come to Moses
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There are no better masters than poverty and wants.
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Time slides like sand through your fingers.
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When the cat is not home, the mice will dance on the table.
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He waits long that waits for another man's death
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To promise a lot, and give a litte, make a fool live happily.
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If the cock does not crow before sunset,it either will rain the next day, or the cock is dead.
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It is lonely at the top.
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He who sow wind, will harvest storm
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No one can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains
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Honesty is the soul of business
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Opportunity creates desire.
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Anger is a short madness
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Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.
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A beautiful woman is never exclusive.
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A tree does not fall at it's first cut
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Attack makes the best defense
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Patience and grass will become milk.
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A beautiful woman and a wooden boat are very expensive in maintenance.
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He who never tickles himself, never laughs
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He who has butter on his head, should stay out of the sun.
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A young bum, makes an old beggar.
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Pick the rose, not the thorns
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Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
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Many become brave when the fiend flees.
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The hunt is better then the prey.
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The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor
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Even clean apples can be sour.
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To grab a cow by the horns
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Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
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We grow too soon old and too late smart
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Better lose the anchor than the whole ship
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No matter how fast a lie is, the truth will catch up with her.
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You can't share loneliness.
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The tree of revenge does not carry fruit
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Those that dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain
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Men should be like coffee, hot sweet and strong
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It is better to remove the weeds from your own garden, before you start with your neighbours.
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When you want to marry a prince you will have to kiss many frogs.
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When two quarrel, both are to blame
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Many small streams make one big river.
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Pick the goose as long as it has feathers
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Barking dogs won't bite.
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We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
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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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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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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
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Better to be safe than sorry.
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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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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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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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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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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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