English Proverbs

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• English Proverbs

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Section 1

• If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
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• Industry is the parent of success.
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• It is better to die when life is a disgrace.
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• It is easier to get money than to keep it.
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• It is easy to be wise after the event.
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Section 2

• It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it
  always open.
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• It is hard to please all.
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• It is never too old to learn.
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• It is no use crying over spilt milk.
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• It is the first step that costs troublesome.
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Section 3

• It is the unforeseen that always happens.
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• It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
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• It never rains but it pours.
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• It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
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• Jack of all trades and master of none.
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Section 4

• Judge not from appearances.
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• Keep good men company and you shall be of the
  number.
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• Kill two birds with one stone.
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• Knowledge is power.
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• Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
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Section 5

• Nothing is so necessary for travellers as
  languages.
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• Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.
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• Not to advance is to go back.
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• No way is impossible to courage.
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• Rome is not built in a day.????,??????

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Section 6

• Observation is the best teacher.
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• Old friends and old wines are best.
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• Old sin makes new shame.
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• Once bitten, twice shy.
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• One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three
  boys no boy.
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Section 7

• One cannot put back the clock.
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• One false move may lose the game.
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• One man's fault is other man's lesson.
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• One never loses anything by politeness.
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• Talk of the devil and he will appear.???,?????

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Section 8

• Pleasure comes through toil.
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• Practice makes perfect.
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• Pride goes before, and shame comes after.
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• Promise is debt.
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• Think twice before you do.
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Section 9

• Time cures all things.
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• Time is money.
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• Time lost cannot be won again.
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• Time past cannot be called back again.
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• Time tries all.
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Section 10

• Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.
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• Reading enriches the mind.
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• To err is human.
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• To know everything is to know nothing.
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• To know oneself is true progress.
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Section 11

• To save time is to lengthen life.
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• Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away
  with it.
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• Two heads are better than one.
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• Unity is strength.
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• Wealth is nothing without health.
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Section 12

• Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.
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• Until all is over one's ambition never dies.
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• Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
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• Virtue is fairer far than beauty.
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• Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock
  away.
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Section 13

• We know not what is good until we have lost it.
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• Well begun is half done.
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• What is learned in the cradle is carried to the
  grave.
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• What's done cannot be undone.
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• When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
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Section 14

• When everybody's somebody then nobody's anybody.
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• When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
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• Where there is a will, there is a way.
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• Where there is life, there is hope.
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• Where there is smoke, there is fire.
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Section 15

• Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools
  have their hearts in their mouths.
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• Work makes the workman.
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• You cannot burn the candle at both ends.
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• You can take a horse to the water but you cannot
  make him drink.
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Section 16

• Nothing brave, nothing have.
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• Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
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• Nothing in the world is difficult for one who
  sets his mind to it.
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• Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
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• Nothing seek, nothing find.
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