A kitchen knife cannot carve its own handle


Korean Proverb

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The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.
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Carve the peg by looking at the hole
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Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
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The bad plowman quarrels with his ox
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Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut
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Put off for one day and ten days will pass
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Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important
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A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out
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Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
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You cannot handle my swag
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I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.
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Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.
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Put off for one day and ten days will pass
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A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out
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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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Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
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He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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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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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
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Why kill time when one can employ it.
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Forever is a long bargain.
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The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
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Time and I against any two.
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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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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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The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
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Never say die.
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If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
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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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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
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Rome was not built in a day.
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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
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Patience is the key to paradise.
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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
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Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
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That which is escaped now is pain to come.
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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
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Riches have wings.
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
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No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
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The gods sell all things at a fair price.
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Something you don't want is dear at any price.
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We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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Necessity unites.
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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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Time tries truth.
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Tell the truth and then run.
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