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"689 Proverbs & Adages Quotes

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
Root Stem Evil Every
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Who want to benefit from the commonwealth must contribute to the common purse.

Benefit Commonwealth Purse Must
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Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Angry Rain Know Fall
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You cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed.

Shameless Man Feel Ashamed
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'The frog trapped in the well does not understand the sea'. Push yourself.

Frog Trapped Well Sea
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Better Diamond Flaw Pebble
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When leaders turned those stones into Bread, they prevent the people from throwing those stones onto them.
Leaders Stones Bread Prevent
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Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Deeper Make Roots Storms
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When life puts you under pressure, remember that pressure cookers cook faster than regular ones.

Pressure Life Faster Cook
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Pessimism never won any battle.

Battle Any Won Never
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.
Love Deserve Need it Least
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We can't complain about the rain when we are asking for flowers.

Complain Rain Asking Flowers
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Shallow Frustrating Absolute Understanding
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How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends

How Had Slain Friend
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Pain Great Joy Grief
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Wise Man Fool Learn
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“It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

Democracy Government Other Worst
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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Notice Tree Crack Bend
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Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
Those Seek Light Walk
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The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action

Self Great Proper Action
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
Friend All None
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Like Always Prefer Convince
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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
Rascal Thief Every But
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Fear Pain From Evil
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Who Good Rule First
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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Never Learn Obey Good
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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Enough War Win Peace
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It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Possible Fail While Possible
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Mark Mind Educate Entertain
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Man is by nature a political animal.
Man Nature Political Animal
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Job Pleasure Put Work
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Quality Not Act Habit
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Wise Secure Pleasure Avoid
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Between Ignorant Living Corpse
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“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”

Politics War Painting Myself
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Worse Make Thing Equal
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“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

Certain Prodded Those Anything
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Honesty is a very expensive gift, don’t expect it from cheap people.
Honesty Cheap People Expensive
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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.
Money Earn Speaking Nonsense
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I just sit in my office and read all day.

Office Sit Read Day
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Praise Person Moment Length
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Delight Solitude Wild Beast
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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Love Wicked Obey Fear
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Wish Friend Work Fruit
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Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.

Weed Flower Once Know
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Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.

Basket Eggs Watch Closely
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It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked.

Tide Learn Swimming Naked
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Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.

Saving Spend Left What
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I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.

Lost Know Where However
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Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.

Heroes Turn Who Tell
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