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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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As the Spanish proverb says, ''He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.'' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
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The proverb warns; ''Don't bite the hand that feeds you.'' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
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There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
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When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. Russian Proverb Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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A proverb is much matter decocted into few words.
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