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Good proverbs

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If you say you will love a person all your life, is saying a candle will continue to burn all your life

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Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Don't trust your enemies.
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Birds of a feather flock together.


Those of similar taste congregate in groups.
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Blood is thicker than water.

So it is ,but this proverb hasn't to do with measures of viscosity. The expression, meaning that family bonds are closer than those of outsiders.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.

There's no briefer way of expressing this thought than shakespeare's;making further explanation redundant.
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The devil take the hindmost.

a proverbial phrase indicating that those who lag behind will receive no aid.
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Discretion is the better part of valour.

The better of valour is discretion.
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you.

this saying is one of the oldest notions known to man in that basis of many of the ethical system on which societies have been built.
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pearls before swine.

Items of quality offered to those who aren't cultured enough to appreciate them.
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Don't change horses in midstream.

don't change your leader or your basic position when part-way through a campaign or a project.
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don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

Don't be hasty in evaluating one's assets.
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Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

don't pay someone to do a task and then do it yourself.
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Don't let the bastards grind you down.

The meaning of this proverbial saying is self evident.
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Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Don't be ungrateful when you receive a gift.
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Put the cart before the horse.

Reverse the accepted order of things.
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Don't try to teach your grandma to suck eggs.

Don't offer advice to some one who has more experience than oneself.
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Upset the apple cart.

To cause upset- to create a difficulty.
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Early to bed and early to rise makes and man healthy,wealthy and wise.
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