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Gold is proved by fire.
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Good debts become bad unless called in.
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Good luck lasts not for ever.
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Govern your passions, or they will govern you.
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Great discomfort arises from too hearty a supper: if you would
enjoy a tranquil sleep let your supper be a light one.
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Great fish feed on the lesser.
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Grieve not for that which is irreparably lost.
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Grieving for misfortunes is adding gall to wormwood.
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Grind with every wind.
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Grow where you are planted.
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Habit causes love.
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Habit gives readiness.
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Habit in sinning takes away the sense of sin.
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Habit is second nature.
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Had he not been visited by sickness, he would have perished
utterly.
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Happiness invites envy.
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Happy are one-eyed men in the country of the blind.
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Happy is the man who is out of debt.
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Happy is the man whose father went to the devil.
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Happy the man who keeps out of strife.
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Happy's the wooing that is not long a-doing.
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Hard by a river he digs a well.
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Hard is the path from poverty to renown.
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Hard things alone will not make a wall. [Some soft substance
must unite them: and so with hard men--to fraternize they
require some soft influence from others.]
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Harsh is the voice which would dismiss us, but sweet is the sound
of welcome.
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Haste manages all things badly.
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Haste trips up its own heels.
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Hate knows no age but death.
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Hatred is a settled anger.
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Have a care how you irritate the wasps. [Meddle not with waspish
people. Attack not a combined force.]
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Have a care not to commence an undertaking of which you may
repent.
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Have a care of a silent dog and a still water.
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Have confidence, but beware in whom.
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Having achieved your purpose, seek not to undo what has been
done.
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Having mastered the lesser difficulties, you will more safely
venture on greater achievements.
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Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
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Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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He acts wisely who says little.
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He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all the
contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and is struggling,
like a swimmer, against the stream.
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He argues in vain who argues without means.
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He assumes a cheerful countenance suppressing the grief which
weighs heavily on his heart.
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He can carry the ox who has carried the calf.
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He catches the best fish who angles with a golden hook.
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He catches the wind with a net.
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He conquers who conquers himself.
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He dies before he is old who is wise before his day.
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He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.
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He does not show a decent quality even over a good dinner.
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He does not sing his father's songs. [He does not imitate the
good example of his father.]
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He does not think milk-and-water of himself.
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