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Though a tree grows ever so high, the falling leaves return to its roots.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

The Potato grows in silence, The iron corrodes in silence.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about silence

Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

When men are rightly occupied their happiness grows of their work.

Proverbs and old sayings about happiness, work, man

Tree that grows crooked will never be straightened - bad habits learned early in life are hard to get rid of later.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about habits, life, bad luck, bad

The farmer grows the corn, but the bear eats it.

Proverbs and old sayings Nepalese

The heart is a tree; it grows where it wants.

Proverbs and old sayings about heart

Stand so much until grass grows under your foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about work

The savage ox grows tame on strange ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

More grows in a garden than the gardener sows there.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about garden

The envious man's face grows lean and his eye swells.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about face, man

The law grows of sin, and chastises it.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about law, sin

While the grass grows, the horse starves.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Time, as he grows old, teaches many lessons.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about time, old, olderness

Without ceres and Bacchus, Venus grows cold.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

A girl never grows into a lady.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

In the garden of time grows the flower of consolation.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about consolation, garden, time

It will last out our time; if after us no grass grows, what does it matter to us?

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about time

Rhue and time, grows both in ane garden.

Proverbs and old sayings about garden, time