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From still water God keep me; from running water I will keep
myself.
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From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall.
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From those I trust God guard me, from those I mistrust I will
guard myself.
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Gifts are often losses.
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Give a clown your finger he'll grasp your fist.
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Give a dog an ill name, and you may as well hang him.
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Give the priest drink, for the clerk is thirsty.
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Give the wise man a hint and leave him to act.
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Give time time.
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Give to him that has.
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Giving is fishing.
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Glowworms are not lanterns.
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Gluttony kills more than the sword.
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Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot.
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Go abroad and you'll hear news of home.
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Go softly at bad bits of road.
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Go to the sea if you would fish well.
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God gives a curst one short horns.
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God heals and the doctor has the thanks.
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God keep me from my friends, from my enemies I will keep myself.
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God preserve you from one who eats without drinking.
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God save me from him who has but one occupation.
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God save me from him who studies but one book.
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God save me from one who does not drink.
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God save you from a bad neighbour, and from a beginner on the
fiddle.
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God sends cold according to the clothes.
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God sends nothing but what can be borne.
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Gold does not buy everything.
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Good blood never lies.
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Good is good, but better beats it.
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Good or bad we must all live.
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Good repute is like the cypress: once cut, it never puts forth
leaf again.
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Good riding at two anchors men have told,
For it one break, the other yet may hold.
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Good ware was never dear.
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Good watch prevents misfortune.
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Good wine makes good blood.
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Grease to the wheels.
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Great cry and little wool, as the man said who shaved the sow.
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Great griefs are mute.
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Great smoke, little roast.
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Greater fools than they of Zago, who dunged the steeple to make
it grow.
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Half a brain is enough for him who says little.
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Handsome is not what is handsome, but what pleases.
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Handsome women generally fall to the lot of ugly men.
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Happy is she who is in love with an old dotard.
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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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Happy is the country which has no history.
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Hard is a new law imposed on old licence.
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Hard upon hard never made a good wall.
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Hard words break no bones.
Source: (Italian)
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