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The radiate sun reflections and lightening cannot make a blind person see.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sun, blind, people

When the glow worm lights her lamp, the air is always very damp.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about air, americans

In spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to what the woman has been thinking all winter.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about thinking, spring, woman, americans, man

Faster than lightning.

Proverbs and old sayings

He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light.

Proverbs and old sayings about light, people

The lightly burdened shall be saved.

Proverbs and old sayings

Two lightning flashes cannot come from one cloud.

Proverbs and old sayings Burundi

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Careless rat chewing on a cat's tail: beware lightning!

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

One's shadow grows larger than life when admired by the light of the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about shadow, moon, light, life

A governor may commit arson while the governed are not allowed to light a lamp.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about light

Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about value, light, night, day, man

A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Who goes fasting to bed will sleep but lightly.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fasting, sleep

Every little helps to lighten the freight, said the captain, as he threw his wife overboard.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wife

All are not merry that dance lightly.

Proverbs and old sayings English about dance

A candle lights others and consumes itself.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Don't let the windows of your home be so small that the light of the sun cannot enter your rooms.

Proverbs and old sayings about light, sun, home

Thorns prick lightly the man who walks slowly.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about man

The son of the god of thunder does not die of lightning.

Proverbs and old sayings about death, god