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1. A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not.
   African Proverb
2. If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
   African Proverb
3. Don’t set sail on someone else’s star.
   African Proverb
4. There are no shortcuts to the top of the palm tree.
   African Proverb
5. When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look into the well, but few will be ready to go down after it.
   African Proverb
6. For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
   African Proverb
7. Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.
   African Proverb
8. Being happy is better than being king.
   African Proverb
9. To try and to fail is not laziness.
   African Proverb
10. If you offend, ask for a pardon; if offended forgive.
    African Proverb
11. A person with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.
    African Proverb



12. Even the best dancer on the stage must retire sometime.
    African Proverb
13. A good deed is something one returns.
    African Proverb
14. Those who accomplish great things pay attention to little ones.
    African Proverb
15. Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty.
    African Proverb
16. The laughter of a child lights up the house.
    African Proverb
17. Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
    African Proverb
18. He who learns, teaches.
    African Proverb
19. Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.
    African Proverb
20. He who refuses to obey cannot command.
    African Proverb
21. A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
    African Proverb
22. Seeing is different than being told.
    African Proverb
23. Rising early makes the road short.
    African Proverb



24. By crawling a child learns to stand.
    African Proverb
25. Hope does not disappoint.
    African Proverb
26. If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
    African Proverb
27. There is no medicine to cure hatred.
    African Proverb
28. A quarrelsome chief does not hold a village together.
    African Proverb
29. If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.
    African Proverb
30. You can tell a ripe corn by its look.
    African Proverb
31. When I think of the others’s misfortunes, I forget mine.
    African Proverb
32. If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom.
    African Proverb
33. A stream cannot rise above its source.
    African Proverb
34. No matter how beautiful and well crafted a coffin might look, it will not make anyone wish for death.
    African Proverb
35. Every misfortune is a blessing.
    African Proverb
36. Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly.
    African Proverb
37. A ripe melon falls by itself.
    African Proverb
38. A man who pays respect to the great paves his own way for greatness.
    African Proverb



39. Children are the reward of life.
    African Proverb
40. Lack of knowledge is darker than night.
    African Proverb
41. Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.
    African Proverb
42. Repetition is the mother of knowledge.
    African Proverb
43. Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.
    African Proverb
44. One must talk little and listen much.
    African Proverb
45. However long the night may last, there will be a morning.
    African Proverb
46. By labor comes wealth.
    African Proverb
47. Having a good discussion is like having riches.
    African Proverb
48. Ingratitude is sooner or later fatal to its author.
    African Proverb
49. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
    African Proverb
50. If you damage the character of another, you damage your own.
    African Proverb
51. Rain does not fall on one roof alone.
    African Proverb
52. A friend is someone you share the path with.
    African Proverb
53. A tree is straightened while it is still young.
    African Proverb
54. One who relates with a corrupt person likewise gets corrupted.
    African Proverb
55. Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
    African Proverb



56. The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
    African Proverb
57. He who does not know one thing knows another.
    African Proverb
58. One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
    African Proverb
59. Every fame has a foundation.
    African Proverb
60. A feeble effort will not fulfill the self.
    African Proverb
61. Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
    African Proverb

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