"A stumble may prevent a fall."

Proverb, English on Adversity
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"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."

Proverb, English on Adversity
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"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune."

Proverb, English on Age and Aging
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"Death is a shadow that always follows the body."

Proverb, English on Death and Dying
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"Death always comes too early or too late."

Proverb, English on Death and Dying
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"Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them."

Proverb, English on Debt
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"The difference is wide that sheets will not decide."

Proverb, English on Decisions
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"He that seeks trouble never misses."

Proverb, English on Delinquency
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"Never step over one duty to perform another."

Proverb, English on Duty
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"A burnt child dreads the fire."

Proverb, English on Experience
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"The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them."

Proverb, English on Fallibility
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"A small family is soon provided for."

Proverb, English on Family
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"Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork."

Proverb, English on Food and Eating
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"Fools build houses, and wise men buy them."

Proverb, English on Fools and Foolishness
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"He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress."

Proverb, English on Fools and Foolishness
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"You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years."

Proverb, English on Friends and Friendship
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"Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight."

Proverb, English on Friends and Friendship
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"The best throw of the dice is to throw them away."

Proverb, English on Gambling
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"Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him."

Proverb, English on Gentlemen
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"Take heed you do not find what you do not seek."

Proverb, English on Goals
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"Gray hairs are death's blossoms."

Proverb, English on Hair
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"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree."

Proverb, English on Happiness
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"We are usually the best men when in the worst health."

Proverb, English on Health
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"A hero is a man who is afraid to run away."

Proverb, English on Heroes and Heroism
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"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."

Proverb, English on Hope
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"The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives."

Proverb, English on Husbands
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"An idle brain is the devil's workshop."

Proverb, English on Idleness
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"'Tis money that begets money."

Proverb, English on Investments
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"Many a true word is spoken in jest."

Proverb, English on Jest
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"Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind."

Proverb, English on Kindness
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"A young man idle, an old man needy."

Proverb, English on Laziness
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"Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others."

Proverb, English on Learning
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"Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance."

Proverb, English on Appearance
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"Use soft words and hard arguments."

Proverb, English on Argument
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"He that plants trees loves others besides himself."

Proverb, English on Love
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"The mob has many heads but no brains."

Proverb, English on Mobs
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"He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin."

Proverb, English on Mothers
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"Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me."

Proverb, English on Names
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"Foul water will quench fire."

Proverb, English on Necessity
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"Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge."

Proverb, English on Neighbors
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