The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way you use them.
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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself to keeps his friends in countenance.
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From beavers, bees should learn to mend their ways. A bee works; a beaver works and plays.
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If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day long.
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In spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to what the woman has been thinking all winter.
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Take a friend for what he does, a wife for what she has, and goods for what they are worth.
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The best way to get someone to stop digging his heels in is to dig out the sand around him.
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If you don't believe in cooperation, watch what happens to a wagon when one wheel comes off.
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Plough your furrows deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
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The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn't get along without them.
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There are many kinds of fruit that grow on the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship.
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A slip of the foot and you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
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If we blame others for our failures, then we should also give others credit for our successes.
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Cheerfulness, helpfulness and honesty are fine, good companions to take with you through life.
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A cat has nine lives; for three he plays, for three he strays, and for the last three he stays.
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Get what you can, and what you get, hold; it's the stone that will turn all your lead into gold.
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Cast the beam out of your own eye before you try to cast the mote from the eyes of your neighbour.
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The dog has returned to his vomit again, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare; false ones like autumn leaves, found everywhere.
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The intelligence of the average individual reaches its lowest ebb when he enters a railroad station.
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