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A heart that loves is always young.
Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.
By others faults the wise correct their own.
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.
Everyone is wise until he speaks.
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.
He is rich who owes nothing.
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Who ceases to be a friend never was one.
Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
Children and drunks always speak the truth.
Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
To keep a new friend, never break with the old.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
To change and change for the better are two different things
Man does what he can, God does what he will.
Never give advice unless asked.
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.
Rest breeds rust.
The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them.
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
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From small beginnings come great things.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
The early bird gets the worm.
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.
Try and trust will move mountains.
Act quickly, think slowly.
The greatest step is out the door.
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs
Some will, some don't, so what!
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
Who ceases to be a friend never was one.
A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
To keep a new friend, never break with the old.
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
Short judgments make long friends.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
Why kill time when one can employ it.
Time and I against any two.
The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
The longest day soon comes to an end.
Forever is a long bargain.
Soon enough is well enough.
Now is the watchword of the wise.
Lost time is never found again.
Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
The less people think the more they talk.
Speak little and to the purpose.
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
A good speaker makes a good liar.
When at a loss how to go on, cough.
Speak when you are spoken to.
He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.
Speak and the man shall be shown.
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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.
A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters.
Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.
Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.
Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.
Those that marry for money sell their liberty.
Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.
Marriage is the sunset of love.
You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.
The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.
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Neither blame or praise yourself.
The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn't get along without them.
To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
Gratitude is the heart's memory.
A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
A sin confessed is half forgiven.
When the will is ready the feet are light.
Better good manners than good looks.
From small beginnings come great things.
Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.
Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.
Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
One is rated by others as he rates himself.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
He that falls by himself never cries.
Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
The heart that truly loves never forgets.
One of these days, is none of these days.
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
The first step toward greatness is to be honest.
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
Short judgments make long friends.
Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.
It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.
Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
Charity sees the need, not the cause.
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.
Civility costs nothing.
Shame is worse than death.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.
Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
To advise is easier than to help.
Never swap horses crossing a stream.
God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
The early bird gets the worm.
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.
What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.
We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Where one is wise two are happy.
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
The less people think the more they talk.
Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains.
Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.
Tomorrow never comes.
A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
Stumbling is not falling.
Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.
Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.
What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.
A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
Who ever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path.
Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters.
If you wish for peace be ready for war.
He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Cunning surpasses strength.
Work is our business; it's success is God s.
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.
It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
Speak little and to the purpose.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
It is the truth that irritates a person.
Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.
When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
He who is near the Church is often far from God.
Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.
There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening.
How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
Make peace with man and war with your sins.
What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
Never find fault with the absent.
Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.
Cut your losses and let your profits run.
Speak the truth and shame the devil.
There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.
A hungry stomach has no ears.
Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Envy eats nothing, but its own heart.
Step by step one goes very far.
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
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