Provérbios em inglês 13
No pain, no gain
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You must be ready to make sacrifices to get what you want badly |
No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken lips sink
ships
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However tempted you may be to retaliate, try not to because revenge is a negative pursuit |
No rose is without a thorn
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Nothing on earth is perfect |
No time like the present
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Now is the best time to do something |
Nothing comes free
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Unfortunately, everything in life has a price attached to it |
Nothing succeeds like success
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When a person starts being successful, he is likely to continue being successful |
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
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One must take risks in order to succeed at anything |
Old habits die hard
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It is difficult to change a long-time habit | |
One good turn deserves another
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Always be ready to show kindness to people who have been kind to you | |
One man's junk is another man's treasure
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People have different tastes, preferences, perceptions of the same thing | |
one man's loss is another man's gain
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What is a disadvantage to one person can be an advantage to another | |
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom
fighter
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There are always two sides to an argument and two perspectives to consider |
Opportunity seldom knocks twice
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You must be ready to grab an opportunity when it comes your way | |
Patience is a virtue
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Patience is an advantage and a good trait to nurture in yourself | |
Politics makes a strange bedfellows
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In politics, people who have always been opponents often work together at different times for their own interests | |
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Poverty is no crime
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The poor should not be despised | |
Practise what you preach
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Do what you advise others to do | |
Pride comes before a fall
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An extremely proud person runs the risk of being humbled in front of everyone | |
Procrastination is the thief of time
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To delay doing your work only wastes your time | |
Put a beggar on horseback, and he will ride to the
devil
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Sometimes, giving a person more than he needs or knows what to do with does not help him but instead, encourages him to go overboard | |
( The ) race is to the swift
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People who are able to overcome life's troubles quickly or do things quickly have the advantage over others | |
Rats desert a sinking ship
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When things go wrong in an organization, people tend to abandon it | |
Repeating a life doesn't make it true
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Saying something is true when it is not just because you would like to believe it is so does not change the facts | |
Revenge is a dish best served cold
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Revenge works well when the target least expects it | |
Revenge is sweet
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Some people feel good to be able to get back at someone who has hurt them | |
Same meat, different gravy
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The same thing presented differently | |
Scratch something and you'll find a
something
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When you know a person better, you will realize that he is not all he seems to be | |
See which way the wind is blowing
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Test how things stand | |
Seek and ye shall find
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When you set out to look for the truth with all your heart, you will find it | |
Self trust is the first secret of success
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You need to believe in your abilities first of all in order to succeed in life | |
Set a thief to catch a thief
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Use the skill and experience of one wrongdoer to catch another | |
Silence gives consent
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If you do not protest, object or say anything in response to a proposal, plan etc. it means you are agreeable to it | |
Six of one and half a dozen of the other
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The same or nearly the same in one case as in the other | |
Slow and steady wins the race
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Do things at your own pace and ability, and you will succeed in time | |
Smile, and the world smiles with you; cry, and you cry
alone
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People are usually ready to share in your happiness but not in your sadness | |
Something is better than nothing
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Be thankful that you do have something, and do not complain about how little you have |
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