1.

Practice makes perfect.

2.

New brooms sweep clean.

3.

More haste, less speed.

4.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.

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Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

6.

Seeing is believing.

7.

Easy come, easy go.

8.

Empty vessels make the most sound.

9.

Every flow must have its ebb.

10.

Experience is the best teacher.

11.

Great minds think alike.

12.

It is never too late to mend.

13.

Keep something for a rainy day.

14.

Let bygones be bygones.

15.

Man proposes, God disposes.

16.

Strike while the iron is hot.

17.

Beauty is only skin-deep.

18.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

19.

One good turn deserves another.

20.

The longest day must have an end.

21.

The first blow is half the battle.

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Penny wise, pound foolish.

23.

A contented mind is a perpetual feast.

24.

A poor man's tale cannot be heard.

25.

Meat is much, but manner is more.

26.

A miss is as good as a mile.

27.

A pin a day is a groat a year.

28.

Never judge by appearances.

29.

As you sow, so shall you reap.

30.

A young idler, an old beggar.

31.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

32.

Look before you leap.

33.

Even homer sometimes nods.

34.

Experience is the mother of wisdom.

35.

Like father, like son.

36.

One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands.

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42.

One is never too old to learn.

A word spoken is past recalling.
The leopard cannot change its spots.
Honesty is the best policy.
Well begun is half done.
A burnt child dreads the fire.

43.

All lay loads on a willing horse.

44.

Men are blind in their own cause.

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Diamond cuts diamond.

A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.

47.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

48.

A reformed rake makes the best husband.

49.

A straw shows which way the wind blows.

50.

As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

51.

Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.

52.

Better the devil you know than the devil you do not know.

53.

Birds of a feather flock together.

54.

Constant dropping wears away the stone.

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Extremes meet.

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Custom reconciles us to everything.

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Cut your coat according to your cloth.

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Dead men tell no tales.

59.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

60.

Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.

61.

Example is better than precept.

62.

Fine feathers make fine birds.

63.

First impressions are most lasting.

64.

Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself.

65.

Give knaves an inch and they will take a yard.

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He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.

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He that touches pitch shall be defiled.

68.

He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.

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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

No cross, no crown.
Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

Two heads are better than one.

73.

It is better to learn a certain trade than to possess a large

fortune.

74.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

75.

There are other fish in the sea.

76.

While the grass grows the horse starves.

77.

Anger and haste hinder good counsel.

78.

Every great thing is nothing but a lot of little ones.

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To think of danger in time of peace.

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Drunken days have all their tomorrows.

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Business is business.

82.

He who teaches, learns.

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At birth we bring nothing; at death we take away nothing.

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Despatch is the soul of business.

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Anger is the cause of sin.

86.

As you make your bed, so you must lie on it.

87.

Every why has a wherefore.

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Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

90.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

91.

Take away the cause, and the effect must cease.

92.

Even brothers keep careful accounts.

93.

The best fish swim near the bottom.

94.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

95.

Nothing venture, nothing have.

96.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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A rolling stone gathers no moss.

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He who has health has hope.

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Self-trust is the first secret of success.

100.
Mischief all comes from much opening of the mouth.

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The blood of the soldiers makes the glory of the general.

102.

Pardon is the most glorious revenge.

103.

No answer is also an answer.

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Knowledge is power.

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Kindness is noblest weapon to conquer with.

106.

When one door shuts, another opens.

107.

A word before is worth two behind.

108.
Better to sail slowly than not to sail at all.

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Turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

A miss is as good as a mile.
Well begun is half done.

112.
A handful of patience is worth
more than a bushel of brains.
113.

Do to others as you would be done by.

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The good seaman is known in bad weather.

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Where there is a will, there is a way.

116.

You must reap what you have sowed.

117.

A wild goose never laid a tame egg.

118.

He who has health has hope.

119.

A fools voice is known by multitude of words.

120.

Two heads are better than one.

121.

Misery loves company.

122.

Men are blind in their own cause.

123.

Gods mill grinds slow but sure.

124.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

125.

There are two sides to every question.

126.

Rome was not built in a day.

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Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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Every man has his taste.

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Mischief all comes from much opening of the mouth.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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Words cut more than swords.

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Leopards cannot change their spots.

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The wealth of the mind is the only true wealth.

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Love makes the world go round.

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking
together in same direction.
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Failure is the mother of success. / Failure teaches success.

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Life is not merely living but living in health.

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There is no rose without a thorn.

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Trust men and they will be true to you.

141.

An eye for an eye, and we will all go blind.

142.

A bad penny always comes back.

143.

Pardon is the most glorious revenge.

144.

No answer is also an answer.

145.

He who has hope has everything.

146.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

147.

Time flies.

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Time is money.

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Tomorrow never comes.

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Practice makes perfect.

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Unity is strength.

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Knowledge is power.

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Might is right.

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Live and learn.

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Haste makes waste.

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Seeing is believing.

157.

An uncut gem goes not sparkle.

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It is as well to know which way the wind blows.

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Sow nothing, reap nothing.

160.

A word once spoken can never be recalled.

161.

To entertain an angel unawares.

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While the grass grows the horse starves.

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If you live with a lame person you will learn to limp.

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

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Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.

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It is more blessed to give than to receive.

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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones.

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Absence is mother of disillusion.

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

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He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

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Far from eye, far from heart.

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He that fears you present will hate you absent.

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In peace prepare for war.

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Long absence changes a friend.

176.

Long absent, soon forgotten.

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Man are best loved farthest off.

178.

Out of sight, out of mind.

179.

Salt water and absence wash away love.

180.
The absent are always in the wrong.

181.
A deceitful peace is more hurtful than an open war.

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When the cat's away, the mice will play.

183.

Like breeds like.

184.

Never try to prove what nobody doubts.

185.
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of
weeds.
186.

A word before is worth two behind.

187.

A word is enough to the wise.

188.

A word spoken is an arrow let fly.

189.

Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.

190.
Better to sail slowly than not to sail at all.

191.

Brave actions never want a trumpet.

192.

A fools bolt is soon shot.

193.
Deeds are males, and words are females.

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Deeds, not words.

195.

Few words are best.

196.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

197.

Fine words dress ill deeds.

198.
Good words cost nothing, but are worth much.

199.

Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.

200.

Hard words break no bones.

201.

Think today and speak tomorrow.

202.
He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.

203.

He that falls today may rise tomorrow.

204.

Advice when most needed is least heeded.

205.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

206.
An enemy may chance to give good counsel.

207.

Come not to counsel uncalled.

208.
Counsel is to be given by the wise, the remedy by the rich.

209.
Counsel must be followed, not praised.

210.

Counsel without help is useless.

211.

Counsels in wine seldom prosper.

212.

Dont teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

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Good counsel has no price.

214.

Good counsel never comes amiss.

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Good counsel never comes too late.

216.

If the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

217.

If you wish good advice, consult an old man.

218.

Ill counsel mars all.

219.
One gives nothing so liberally as advice.

220.

Self is a bad counselor.

221.

Ambition loses many a man.

222.

Ambition makes people diligent.

223.
Zeal, when it is a virtue, is a dangerous one.

224.

Zeal without prudence is frenzy.

225.
Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.

226.

Zeal too often lacks discretion.

227.

Mere talking tends only to failure.

228.
To do one thing well is a worthy ambition.

229.
The higher the mountain, the greater descent.

230.

The best is the enemy of the good.

231.

Like father, like son.

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If one will not, another will.

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Better ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws
me.
234.
He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill.

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Nothing is difficult to a man whom ambition fires.

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A clear conscience is like a coat of mail.

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Handsome is that handsome does.

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A fair face may hide a foul heart.

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A good conscience is a safe pillow.

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A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

241.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

242.

A honey tongue, a heart of gall.

243.

As a man lives, so shall he die.

244.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.

245.

Be just before you are generous.

246.
A thief passes for a gentleman when thieving has made him
rich.
247.

All are not thieves that dogs bark at.

248.

All that glitters is not gold.

249.

Apparel makes the man.

250.

Appearances are deceptive.

251.
Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their
tails.
252.
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.

253.
Conscience does make cowards of us all.

254.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

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Kindness is noblest weapon to conquer with.

256.

Fine feathers do not make fine birds.

257.

An uncut gem goes not sparkle.

258.
A fair woman without virtue is like palled wine.

259.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

260.

All cats are grey in the dark.

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Kindness comes of will.

262.

It is well to profit by the folly of others.

263.

Beauty fades like a flower.

264.

Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.

265.

When one door shuts, another opens.

266.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

267.

When things are at the worst they begin to mend.

268.
Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit.

269.

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

270.
When God has his church, the devil will have his chapel.

271.

Fair face, foul heart.

272.

Give knaves an inch and they will take a yard.

273.

Fair without and foul (false) within.

274.

Give a thief enough rope and he will hang himself.

275.

Handsome is what handsome does.

276.

If Jacks in love, hes no judge of Jills beauty.

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Pretty face, poor fate.

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Great talents mature late.

279.

A great tree attracts the wind.

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A little body often harbors a great soul.

281.

A little help is worth a deal of pity.

282.

A little pot is soon hot.

283.

A little spark may kindle a great fire.

284.

A little wariness prevents great weariness.

285.

A small leak will sink a great ship.

286.

He who does not gain loses.

287.

Every great thing is nothing but a lot of little ones.

288.

Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance.

289.

Every oak has been an acorn.

290.

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

291.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

292.

A hard beginning makes a good ending.

293.

All good things must come to an end.

294.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

295.

Alls well that ends well.

296.

An ill beginning, an ill ending.

297.
At the games end, we shall see who gains.

298.

Bad beginnings have ever bad endings.

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Everything has an end.

300.

Everything must have a beginning.

301.
Good to begin well, better to end well.

302.
He who begins many things, finishes but few.

303.
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.

304.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

305.

Forgive and forget.

306.
A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often.

307.

After black clouds, clear weather.

308.
Do not forget little kindness and do not remember small
faults.
309.

Every bean has its black.

310.

Too much water drowned the miller.

311.
Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

312.

He that touches pitch shall be defiled.

313.

Violent fires soon burn out.

314.

The devil is not so black as he is painted.

315.

The fairer the paper, the fouler the blot.

316.

The pot calls the kettle black.

317.
There is no wool so white but a dyer can make it black.

318.

There's a black sheep in every flock.

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A book that is shut, is but a block.

320.

A good book is a light to the soul.

321.

He teaches ill, who teaches all.

322.

Example is better than precept.

323.

It is well to profit by the folly of others.

324.
By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.

325.
Books and friends should be few and well chosen.

326.
Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

327.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

328.

Good books need no boost.

329.

Practice what you preach.

330.

Take things as they come.

331.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and
closed with profit.
332.

You cannot tell a book by its cover.

333.

Experience is the best teacher.

334.

Experience is the mother of wisdom.

335.

A beggar pays a benefit with a louse.

336.

Once bitten, twice shy.

337.
Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.

338.

Better die a beggar than live a beggar.

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Soon ripe, soon rotten.

340.

Diet cures more than a doctor.

341.

Industry is the parent of success.

342.

There are many ways to fame.

343.

Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows.

344.

Do in Rome as the Romans do.

345.
Good manners are the fine flowers of civilization.

346.
Character is what makes one man stand out more prominently
than another.
347.

Full of courtesy, full of craft.

348.

Gather you rosebuds while you may.