African Proverbs

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African Proverb

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
African Proverb

A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not.
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We start as fools and become wise through experience.
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If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.
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He who is being carried does not realize how far the town is.
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Don't set sail on someone else's star.
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Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
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It is not what you are called, but what you answer to.
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Seeing is better than hearing.
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One must talk little and listen much.
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He who learns, teaches.
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Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you.
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
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To try and to fail is not laziness.
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There is no medicine to cure hatred.
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Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
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He who talks incessantly, talks nonsense.
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The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.
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Money is sharper than a sword.
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Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens.
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What you cannot see during the day, you will not see at night.
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
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He who forgives ends the argument
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It takes a whole village to raise a child.
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The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
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You must judge a man by the work of his hands.
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It is not work that kills, but worry.
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The path is made by walking.
African Proverb

So many little things makes a man love a woman in a BIG way.
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