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+When you fall into a pit, you either die or get out. (Chinese)
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+No pain, no gain. (American)
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+God did not create hurry. (Finnish)
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+A good example is the best sermon. (English)
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+Good advice is often annoying - bad advice never is. (French)
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+In night there is counsel. (Greek)
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+Who are the deafest? Those who won't listen to good advice. (Sanskrit)
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+Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice. (Italian)
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+Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. (Irish)
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+Advice after mischief is like medicine after death. (Danish)
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+It is easy to advise the wise. (Serbian)
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+Seek advice but use your own common sense. (Yiddish)
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+Each cross has its own inscription. (English)
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+Advise no one to go to war or marry. (Spanish)
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+There's no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale. (German)
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+Ambition destroys its possessor. (Hebrew)
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+If you must be a servant, serve the rich; if you must be a dog, be a temple dog. (Laotian)
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+The person who asks for little deserves nothing. (Mexican)
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+Ambition begets vexations. (Singhalese)
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+Aim high in your career but stay humble in your heart. (Korean)
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+People seek out big-shots as flies seek out the elephant's tail. (Indonesian)
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+If you would get ahead, be a bridge. (Welsh)
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+You jump, but you come down all the same. (Martinican)
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+A stumble is not a fall. (Haitian)
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+Go for it! (American)
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+The anger of the prudent never shows. (Burmese)
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+Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it. (English)
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+Anger has no eyes. (Malay)
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+A hand ready to hit may cause you great trouble. (Maori)
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+Postpone today's anger until tomorrow. (Tagalog)
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+The hot sun melts the snows; when anger comes, wisdom goes. (Hindi)
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+If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. (Korean)
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+A word spoken in anger may mar an entire life. (Greek)
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+Anger is a short madness. (Dutch)
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+People in trouble remember Allah. (Hausa)
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+There's nothing worse than a person looking for a quarrel. (Serbian)
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+Two things cannot be hidden: being astride a camel and being pregnant. (Lebanese)
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+The teeth that laugh are also those that bite. (Hausa)
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+Anything with scales counts as a fish. (Malay)
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+A person who is always nice is not always nice. (Polish)
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+What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. (French)
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+The price of your hat isn't the measure of your brain. (African-American)
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+Though a cage may be made of gold, it is still a cage. (Mexican)
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+One who pretends reluctance is like a turtle being taken to water. (Lakota)
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+Froth is not beer. (Dutch)
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+Difficulties make you a jewel. (Japanese)
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+An illiterate king is a crowned ass. (English)
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+When the music changes, so does the dance. (Hausa)
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+What good is giving sugar to the dead? (Kashmiri)
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+Don't use an ax to embroider. (Malay)
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+When they gave the donkey flowers to smell, it ate them. (Armenian)
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+Sun is good for cucumbers, rain for rice. (Vietnamese)
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+If you enter a goat stable, bleat; if you enter a water buffalo stable, bellow. (Indonesian)
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+Hold short services for minor gods. (Nepalese)
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+Carve the peg by looking at the hole. (Korean)
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+Don't plant a seed in the sea. (Swahili)
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+Every tear has a smile behind it. (Iranian)
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+The point of the needle must pass first. (Ethiopian)
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+An artist lives everywhere. (English)
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+Poetry moves heaven and earth. (Japanese)
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+The block of wood should not dictate to the carver. (Maori)
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+Even the best song becomes tiresome if heard too often. (Korean)
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+People who do not break things first will never learn to create anything. (Tagalog)
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+Every art requires the whole person. (French)
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+A thousand artisans, a thousand plans. (Chinese)
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+If you fail to practice your art, it will soon disappear. (German)
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+A picture is a poem without words. (Latin)
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+What cannot be cured must be endured. (Scottish)
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+A good spectator also creates. (Swiss)
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+When what you want doesn't happen, learn to want what does. (Arabic)
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+A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all. (Chinese)
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+All happiness is in the mind. (English)
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+To be willing is to be able. (French)
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+Nothing is easy to the unwilling. (Gaelic)
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+If it were not for hope, the heart would break. (Greek)
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+The heart at rest sees a feast in everything. (Hindi)
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+The dog that wags its tail won't be beaten. (Japanese)
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+The person who truly desires to die will not complain if buried standing up. (Mexican)
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+Spare us what we can learn to endure. (Yiddish)
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+With a stout heart, a mouse can lift an elephant. (Tibetan)
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+The shadow should be the same length as the body. (Indonesian)
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+Cutting off a mule's ears doesn't make it a horse. (Creole)
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+You can't get rice by pounding bran. (Burmese)
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+A wild goose never laid a tame egg. (Gaelic)
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+Cows have no business in horseplay. (Jamaican)
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+Be not water, taking the tint of all colors. (Syrian)
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+Fishing without a net is merely bathing. (Hausa)
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+When a mother calls her child "bastard," you can take her word for it. (Yiddish)
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+A boor remains a boor even if sleeping on silken pillows. (Danish)
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+Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them. (Ethiopian)
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+Don't take any wooden nickels! (American)
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+Don't hang your hat higher than you can reach. (Belizean)
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+One can never have too much of a good thing. (American)
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+Hands that give also receive. (Ecuadorian)
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+Too much breaks the bag. (Spanish)
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+If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding. (Yiddish)
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+Strong attachment is difficult - it makes one mad or kills. (Moroccan)
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+Where there is sunshine, there is also shade. (Kashmiri)
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+Even in Mecca people make money. (Hausa)
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+Going beyond is as bad as falling short. (Chinese)
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		When you fall into a pit, you either die or get out. (Chinese)
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		Good advice is often annoying - bad advice never is. (French)
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		Who are the deafest? Those who won't listen to good advice. (Sanskrit)
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		Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice. (Italian)
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		Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. (Irish)
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		Advice after mischief is like medicine after death. (Danish)
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		Seek advice but use your own common sense. (Yiddish)
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		There's no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale. (German)
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		If you must be a servant, serve the rich; if you must be a dog, be a temple dog. (Laotian)
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		The person who asks for little deserves nothing. (Mexican)