CHINESE WORDS OF WISDOM

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• Compiled by
• Huma Malik
• January 2020

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• A bad word worshipped will echo a hundred miles. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• A bird does not sing because it has an answer to
  something, it sings because it has a song. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• A clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• A closed mind is like a closed book just a block
  of wood.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• A fall into a ditch makes you wiser. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• A good teacher better than a barrowful of books.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• A hundred NO's are less agonizing than one
  insincere YES. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• A little impatience will spoil great plans.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• A man grows most tired while standing still.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can
  never accomplish great things.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• A single conversation with a wise man is worth a
  months study of books.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• A smile will gain you ten more years of life. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• A whitewashed crow soon shows black again. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• A wise man makes his own decisions an ignorant
  man follows public opinion.  
• - Chinese Proverb

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• All things are difficult before they are easy. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can't
  buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• An invisible thread connects those who are
  destined to meet.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Be not afraid of growing slowly be afraid only
  of standing still. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Before preparing to improve the world, first look
  around your own home three times. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Better the cottage where one is merry than the
  palace where one weeps.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Better to light a candle than to curse the
  darkness. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Blame yourself as you blame others forgive
  others as you forgive yourself. - Chinese Proverb

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• Control your emotions or they will control you. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Dig the well before you are thirsty.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Dont listen to what they say. Go see. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
• - Confucius

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• Experience is a comb which nature gives us when
  we are bald.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Forget the favors given remember those received.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
  Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a
  lifetime.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -
  very gently. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Habits are cobwebs at first cables at last. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• He who asks a question is a fool for five
  minutes he who does not ask a question remains a
  fool forever. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• He who returns from a journey is not the same as
  he who left.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• If you are patient in one moment of anger, you
  will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan
  for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100
  years, educate mankind.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• If your mind is strong, all difficult things will
  become easy if your mind is weak, all easy
  things will become difficult.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• It is easy to find a thousand soldiers, but hard
  to find a good general.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the
  doing.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner
  everywhere. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Listening well is as powerful as talking well,
  and is also as essential to true conversation.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Mans schemes are inferior to those made by
  heaven.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Man cannot be judged by looks seas cannot be
  measured by cup.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Neither fortunes nor flowers last forever.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot
  block the sun.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Numerous friends mean no deep friendship.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Often one finds ones destiny just where one
  hides to avoid it.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• One who stands straight doesn't fear a crooked
  shadow.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Only one who can swallow an insult is a man.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Outside noisy, inside empty.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is
  sweet.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Pearls dont lie on the seashore. If you want
  one, you must dive for it.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Ripe fruit falls by itself - but it doesn't fall
  in your mouth.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Simple to open a shop another thing to keep it
  open.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Slow work
• fine work.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others
  away. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Teachers open the door you enter by yourself.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Tell me, I forget. Show me, I remember. involve
  me, I understand.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Tension is who you think you should be,
  relaxation is who you are.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• The journey of a thousand miles starts with a
  single step.
• - Lao Tzu

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• The more you sweat in practice, the less you
  bleed in battle.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• The person attempting to travel two roads at once
  will get nowhere.
• Xun Kuang

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• The person who is his own master cannot tolerate
  another boss.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• The pine stays green in winter . . . wisdom in
  hardship.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• The swiftest horse can't overtake a word once
  spoken.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Those who just want speed don't succeed.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Timely return of a loan makes it easier to borrow
  a second time.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• To build it took one hundred years to destroy it
  one day.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• To have principles first have courage.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• To know a fish go to the water to know a bird's
  song go to the mountains.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• To know another is not to know the person's face,
  but to know the person's heart.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• True knowledge is when one knows the limitations
  of ones knowledge.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Two good talkers are not worth one good listener.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Watch over workers at their labors, not their
  meals.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• We count our miseries carefully, and accept our
  blessings without much thought.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to
  others. 
• - Confucius

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• When the waters drop, the rocks appear. 
• - Chinese Proverb

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• When the winds of change blow, some people build
  walls and others build windmills.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• With virtue you can't be completely poor without
  it you can't be truly rich.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Without sorrows no one becomes a saint.
• - Chinese Proverb

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• Compiled by
• Huma Malik
• January 2020