English Proverb

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

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A stumble may prevent a fall.

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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

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Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.

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Use soft words and hard arguments.

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

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A good beginning makes a good end.

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A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.

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Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods.

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

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While the doctors consult, the patient dies.

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Death is a shadow that always follows the body.

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Death always comes too early or too late.

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Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

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The difference is wide that sheets will not decide.

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He that seeks trouble never misses.

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Never step over one duty to perform another.

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A burnt child dreads the fire.

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The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.

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A small family is soon provided for.

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Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork.

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

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He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

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The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

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Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

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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.

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We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

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An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

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Tis money that begets money.

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Many a true word is spoken in jest.

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

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A young man idle, an old man needy.

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Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.

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He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

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The mob has many heads but no brains.

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He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.

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Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

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Foul water will quench fire.

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Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

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The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.

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Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

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No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.

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Don't halt before you are lame.

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Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.

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Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

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A proverb is the child of experience.

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When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.

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Still waters run deep.

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Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

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To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

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Time is the soul of business.

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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.

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It takes all sorts to make a world.

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

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Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.

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Where there's a will, there's a way.

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Two wrongs do not make a right.

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