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The bitterness of studying is preferable to the bitterness of ignorance.

Proverbs and old sayings about ignorance

Patience is bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings French about bitter, patience

Patience is bitter but its fruits are sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings French about bitter, patience

Cherries are bitter to the glutted blackbird.

Proverbs and old sayings French about bitter

Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.

Proverbs and old sayings French about medicine

The bitter cup we strive to remove from us holds the medicine we are most in need of.

Proverbs and old sayings about medicine, bitter, need

Must is a bitter herb.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bitter

Patience is a bitter plant but it has a sweet fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bitter, patience

He who has not tasted bitter, knows not what sweet is.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bitter

He who has not tasted bitter things, knows not what sweet is.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bitter, things

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bitter

When the cat's stomach is full, the rat's back is bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about bitter

The beginning of sin is sweet; its end is bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings about beginning, bitter, sin, end

A bitter heart devours its owner.

Proverbs and old sayings about bitter, heart

The truth is bitter and lies are sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings about bitter, truth

He swallows the bitter pill.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about bitter

Even the truth may be bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about bitter, truth

The wine is sweet, the paying bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about bitter, wine

No war is more bitter than the war of friends, but it does not last long.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about war, bitter

Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bitter, knowledge