A candle lights others and consumes itself.
– Jewish Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie.
~Yiddish Proverb
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As you teach, you learn.
– Jewish Proverb
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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
– Jewish Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say.
– Jewish
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A slave shows his true character, not while he is enslaved, but when he becomes a master.
– Jewish
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.
~Yiddish Proverb
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Charity doesn’t excuse cheating.
– Yiddish Proverb
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Confidence is half of victory.
– Yiddish Proverb
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Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Jewish Proverb
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Don’t be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don’t be too bitter lest you be spewed out.
– Jewish Proverb
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Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds.
– Jewish Proverb
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Don’t live in a town where there are no doctors.
– Jewish Proverb
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Do not make yourself so big. You are not so small.
– Jewish
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Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile.
– Jewish Proverb
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God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
~Jewish Proverb
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He who does harm to his body does harm to his soul.
– Hasidic Saying
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He who puts up with insult invites injury.
– Jewish Proverb
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If I am like someone else who will be like me?
– Jewish Saying
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If you can’t go over, you must go under.
– Jewish Proverb
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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
– Yiddish proverb
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If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
– Yiddish Proverb
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If you want your dreams to come true, don’t sleep.
– Yiddish Proverb
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“Klieg, Klieg, Klieg-Du bist a Nar. You are smart, smart. smart – but you are not so smart!” – a Yiddish saying
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Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
– Jewish Proverb
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Man can see his reflection only when he bends down close to it; and the heart of a man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; they it will see itself within his heart.
– Jewish Hasidic saying
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Make sure to be in with your equals if you’re going to fall out with your superiors.
– Jewish Proverb
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Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.
– Jewish Proverb
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Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
– Jewish Proverb
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Not to have felt pain is not to have been human.
– Jewish Proverb
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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.
– Hasidic Saying
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Poverty is no disgrace, but it’s also no great honour.
– Yiddish
Sleep faster, we need the pillows.
– Jewish Proverbs
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
– Jewish Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle.
– Jewish
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The best preacher is the human heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.
– Jewish saying
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“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.”
– Hasidic Proverb
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
~Jewish Proverb
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What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth.
– Jewish Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup than without.
– Jewish Proverb
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With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.
– Yiddish
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When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.
– Jewish Proverb
Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
— Jewish Saying