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English Proverb part 2

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51. Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom.
52. Half a loaf is better than none.
53. Have lost the goods is not so important than have lost the respect.
54. The more one gets, the more one wants.
55. Poor in wealth is better than poor in opinion.
56. Live now, pay later.
57. If you don't help row, don't slow the boat down.
58. If you love someone don't forget yourself.
59. If a man thinks himself great, he can not know his own wrongdoings.
60. Honesty is is the best policy.
61. Speech is the picture of mind.
62. Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality.
63. A mere madness to live like a wretch and die rich.
64. No man can be the patriot on an empty stomach.
65. The unexpected always happen.
66. Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
67. One law for the rich and another for the poor.
68. A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse.
69. In prosperity caution, in adversity patience.
70. Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire of light.
71. It's love that makes the world go round.
72. Reason is the guide and light of life.
73. Living without an aim is like a sailing without compass.
74. Reason teaches young men to lie well, and prepare old men to die well.
75. Life is half spent before we know what it is.
76. Who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.
77. A clear conscience can bear any trouble.
78. Fire is test of gold, adversity of strong man.
79. The enemy of the best is not the worst but the good enough.
80. If you can not speak good of men, refuse to speak ill of them.
81. Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
82. Little is done where many command.
83. Better untaught than ill taught.
84. Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
85. Knowledge is power.
86. Don't be disappointed with fate, don't make protest against the predestination.
87. Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is a key to it.
88. If you want to reduce poverty and ignorance, you must go to bed late and get up early.
89. If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, cut me down! If I die, avenge me!
90. We must leave exactly on time... From now on everything must function to perfection.
91. The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
92. Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
93. The broad mass of a nation... Will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one.
94. It is a mistake to look far ahead. Only one link it the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
95. Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
96. The empire of the future is the empire of the mind.
97. I'm not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
98. There are limits to self-indulgence, none to self-restraint.
99. Don't cut my feel, don't kill my love.
100. Being a leader, you must be aware of poor people's illness.
101. We need to have a sense of past and future, not just present.
102. Everything can be solved, but dying can't be solved.
103. Struggle in life will bring a bright future.
104. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
105. To a man with an empty stomach food is god.

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1. Prevention is better than cure.
2. No interference is the sinew of peace.
3. For loan loses both itself and friend.
4. there is no success without patience.
5. Blood is thicker than water.
6. Good children reflect their parents, good students reflect their teachers.
7. Cut your coat according to your cloth.
8. Do not throw rice and pick up husks.
9. Do not whisper in front of guest.
10. Don't judge a man by his looks.
11. Still waters run deep.
12. Lock the barn door after the horse is stolen.
13. Charity begins at home.
14. Look before you leap.
15. There is no perfectness in the world.
16. None so blind as those who will not see.
17. There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
18. No one is too old to learn.
19. No one is perfect.
20. No man is born wise.
21. No guts no glory.
22. A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself.
23. Out of sight, out of mind.
24. Associating with a blacksheep always bring sorrow but a wise man always brings happiness.
25. Great oaks from little acorns grow.
26. There's safety in numbers.
27. Think today and speak tomorrow.
28. Learn from your mistakes.
29. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
30. When in Rome do as the Romans do.
31. Jack of all trades and master of none.
32. Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
33. To know many things is not as good as to be an expert in one field.
34. Don't blow your own horn.
35. Let bygones be bygones.
36. A miss is as good as a mile.
37. Life is struggle.
38. No success without hard work.
39. Fingers are all thumbs.
40. Strike while the iron is hot.
41. Let sleeping dogs lie.
42. You can not use a winnowing basket to hide a dead elephant.
43. Little by little, a bird can make its nest. Drop by drop water fills the container.
44. When wine is in, wisdom is out.
45. Better buy than borrow.
46. Even if they are sagacious but they would become darkness.
47. All gotten gains never proper (Thinks wrongly obtained don't bring success or happiness).
48. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
49. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do not today.
50. When a man is angry, he can not be in the right.

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