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#proverb

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Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.


Greg Mortenson


#education #inspiriational #proverb #sharing #women

Let Love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.


Anonymous


#faith

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.


Patricia C. Wrede


#humor #proverbs #safe #sorry #humor

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.


Nicholson Baker


#apply #friend #him #his #life

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.


Miguel de Cervantes


#experience #long #long experience #proverb #sentence

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.


Miguel de Cervantes


#applied #aptly #conversation #forever #hit

Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.


Lisa Shearin


#ignorance #proverb #death

You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.


John Lydgate


#proverb #inspirational

An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.


Tahir Shah


#afghanistan #folklore #proverbs #saying #sufis

This too shall pass...


Anonymous


#proverbs #bible






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