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Though God take the sun out of heaven, yet we must have patience
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Those that eat cheries with great persons, shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones
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Youth and age will never agree
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Youth and white paper take any impression
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You may gape long enough, ere a brid fall into your mouth
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You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs
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You cannot make bricks without straw
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You cannot get blood out of a stone
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You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear
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Work hard while you have youth and strenght; for soon weak old age will creep on you with silent tread
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Work while you have youth and strenght
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You can drive out nature with a pitchfork, but she keeps on coming back
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You can’t make an omelet / omelette / without breaking eggs
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With seven nannies a child will be without eyes
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Without diligence, no prize
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Without shame, all the world
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While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ’tis one spoken ’tis another’s
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Three things drive a man out of his house: smoke, rain, and a scolding wife
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There’s no smoke without fire
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There’s many a good cock come out of a tattered bag
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When candles are out all cats are grey
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When candles are out, all women are fair
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What lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
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What youth is used to, age remembers
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What is bred in the bone will not go (come) out of the flesh
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We pay when we are old for the misdeeds of our youth
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Wealth is nothing without health
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Well kens the mouse when the cat’s out of the house
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We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours
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Turnabout is fair play
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Truth will be out
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Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
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To make mountains out of molehills
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To make a mountain out of a molehill
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To live from hand to mouth
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