It takes a rough stone to sharpen the edge


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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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Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
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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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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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One of these days, is none of these days.
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Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
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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 makes good people better and bad people worse.
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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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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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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
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That which proves too much, proves nothing!
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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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That which is escaped now is pain to come.
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
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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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The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
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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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Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
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Truth fears nothing but concealment.
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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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The Devil finds work for idle hands.
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The work praises the man.
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