All sunshine makes the desert.
– Arab Proverb
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A heart free from care is better than a full purse.
– Arab
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An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
– Arab Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
~Arabian Proverb
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After lunch; rest; after dinner walk a mile.
– Arab Proverb
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Ask the experienced rather than the learned.
– Arab
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ASK not a man who his father was but make trial of his qualities, and then conciliate or reject him accordingly. For it is no disgrace to new wine, if only it be sweet, as to its taste, that it was the juice [or daughter] of sour grapes.
– Arabic.
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BY six qualities may a fool be known: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without motive; inquiry, without an object; trust in a stranger; and incapacity to discriminate between friend and foe.
Arabic.
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Better a hundred enemies outside the house than one inside.
– Arab
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Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
– Arab
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Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
– Arab
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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
– Arab
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God sells knowledge for labour — honour for risk.
– Arabic Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.
– Arabic Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
– Arab
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If thou art poor, do not make a rich man thy friend.
– Arab
If thou goest to a foreign country, do not alight at a rich man’s house.
– Arab
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Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
– Arab
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Lying and stealing are next-door neighbours.
– Arab
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Never give advice in a crowd.
– Arab Proverb
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ONE common origin unites us all, but every sort of wood does not give the perfume of the lignum aloes.
-Arabic.
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RICHES disclose in a man’s character the bad qualities formerly concealed in his poverty.
– Arabic.
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SIT not down to the table before thy stomach is empty, and rise before thou hast filled it.
– Arabic
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The sinning is the best part of repentance.
– Arab
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
– Arab
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The eyes are the spoons of speech.
– Arab
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The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
– Arab
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Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
– Arab
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Who works achieves and who sows reaps.
– Arabian