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English Proverb Quotes
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Famous English Proverb Quotations
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A proverb, also called a byword or nayword, is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and repeated, which expresses a truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity
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- A full cup must be carried steadily.
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- A man is as old as he feels himself to be.
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- A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
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- A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
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- A stumble may prevent a fall.
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- Advice is least heeded when most needed.
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- Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
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- Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.
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- Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
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- Don't fall before you're pushed.
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- Every path has its puddle.
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- First deserve, and then desire.
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- Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.
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- He that has no charity deserves no mercy.
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- He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.
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- He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
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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.
English Proverb » - In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
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- In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.
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- Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
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- Many things are lost for want of asking.
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- Never fall out with your bread and butter.
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- One boy is more trouble that a dozen girls.
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- Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.
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- Spread the table and contention will cease.
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- The eyes are the window of the soul.
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- The shortest answer is doing.
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- Use soft words and hard arguments.
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- We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
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- We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.
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- When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
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- Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
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