Chinese Proverbs - page 49

Paczolay, Gyula (1997). "1". European proverbs: in 55 languages, with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese. Veszprémi Nyomda. p. 33. ISBN 1-875943-44-7. (Chinese Proverb)
Present afflictions may tend to our future good. View proverb
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James Kelly (1818). A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs Explained and Made Intelligible to the English Reader. Rodwell and Martin. p. 43. View proverb
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Man's schemes are inferior to those made by heaven. View proverb
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To hit a dog with a meat-bun, so it leaves never turning around. View proverb
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Transliteration (pinyin): Sān gè héshàng méi shuǐ hē. View proverb
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Three monks have no water to drink. View proverb
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Try to save the dead horse as if it is still alive. View proverb
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You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. View proverb
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Horace, Of the Art of Poetry, Wentworth Dillon's trans, line 212. (19 BC) View proverb
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Barack Obama, Speech at Arlington, Virginia. (Chinese Proverb)
Meaning: Nature can help and harm you. The people (the water) can raise someone (a boat) to power, but can also take that power away (sinking the boat). View proverb
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The sky is big and the emperor is far away. View proverb
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Meaning: Having done something wrong for the first time, you are afraid/do not want to do it again. View proverb
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If one does not plow, there will be no harvest. View proverb
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Meaning: Work hard and you shall gain success. View proverb
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Transliteration (pinyin): Zìzhù zhě tiānzhù. View proverb
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Those who help themselves, God will help. View proverb
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Joseph Alleine, The Solemn Warnings of the Dead: or, An Admonition to Unconverted Sinners (1804), Chapter 3. View proverb
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Meaning: "Those who are late to act, arrive, or get up tend to miss opportunities already seized by those who came earlier." View proverb
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When one blind man leads several blind men, before long all will fall into a fire pit. (Chinese Proverb)
A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend. View proverb
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A bad workman blames his tools. View proverb
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A dead songbird gives us no meat. View proverb
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A dragon will be teased by a shrimp in a shoal water; a tiger will be bullied by a dog on a treeless plain. View proverb
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