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The darkest hour is just before dawn.

Proverbs and old sayings English

The darkest hour comes just before the dawn.

Proverbs and old sayings English

An hour may destroy what an age was building.

Proverbs and old sayings English about destruction, age, olderness

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverbs and old sayings English about bad luck, day, bad, good, good luck

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Proverbs and old sayings English about happiness, life, man

A fool can ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man

A sauna makes a woman most beautiful one hour after the bath.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about woman

One hour's sleep before midnight is better than three after it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about sleep

In America an hour is forty minutes.

Proverbs and old sayings German

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.

Proverbs and old sayings German about sleep

A hundred years of wrong do not make an hour of right.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bad, rightness

One hour's sleep before midnight is better than two after it.

Proverbs and old sayings German about sleep

In the hour of your greatest success are sown the seeds of your own destruction.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about destruction, gypsies, success

Half an hour in a spring evening is worth a thousand gold pieces.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about spring

Sometimes it takes only an hour to get a reputation that lasts for a thousand years.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about prestige

The hour is passing.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Each hour injures, the last one slays.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

One hour to-day is worth two to-morrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about day

The passing hour is sometimes a mother, sometimes a stepmother.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about mother

In the hour of adversity be not without hope.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about hope