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Please the eye and plague the heart.

tān
tú

shí
kuài
huó


rán
líu
xià
yǐn
huò


Pleasure comes through toil.

kǔ
jìn
gān
lái


Pour water into a sieve.

zhú
lán

dǎ
shuǐ

chǎng
kōng


Practice makes perfect.

shóu
néng
shēng
qiǎo


Praise is not pudding.

gōng
wéi
huà
bù
néng
dāng
fàn
chī


Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.

hǎo
rén
yuè
kuā
yuè
hǎo

huài
rén
yuè
kuā
yuè
zāo


Prefer loss to unjust gain.

níng
kě
chī
kuī

bù
tān
pián
便



Prevention is better than cure.

yù
fáng
shèng
yú
zhì
liáo


Pride goes before, and shame comes after.

jiāo
ào
shǐ
使
rén
luò
hòu


Promise is debt.


nuò
qiān
jīn


Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.

yàn
yǔ
shì

cháng
jīng
yàn
de
jié
jīng


Pull the chestnut out of fire.

huǒ
zhōng
qǔ



Put the cart before the horse.

běn
mò
dǎo
zhì


Put your shoulder to the wheel.

dǐng

xiāng
zhù


Reading enriches the mind.

kāi
juǎn
yǒu



Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.

dú
shū
jiàn
nǎo

yùn
dòng
qiáng
shēn


Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.

yào
rén
zūn
jìng


xū

zhòng


Rome is not built in a day.

bīng
dòng
sān
chǐ

fēi


zhī
hán


Saying is one thing and doing another.

yán
xíng
bù



Seeing is believing.

yǎn
jiàn
wèi
shí


Seek the truth from facts.

shí
shì
qíu
shì


Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.

zhì
zhě
dāng
chà

bù
yòng
jiāo
dài


Set a thief to catch a thief.


zéi
zhuō
zéi


Short accounts make long friends.

hǎo
péng
yǒu
qín
suàn
zhàng


Something is better than nothing.

liáo
shèng
yú
wú


Soon learn, soon forgotten.

xué
dé
kuài

wàng
dé
kuài


Soon ripe, soon rotten.

shóu
dé
kuài

làn
dé
kuài


Speech is silver, silence is gold.

néng
yán
shì
yín

chén
mò
shì
jīn


Still water run deep.

jìng
shuǐ
cháng
shēn


Strike the iron while it is hot.

chèn
rè
dǎ
tiě


Success belongs to the persevering.

jiān
chí
jìu
shì
shèng



Take things as they come.


lái
zhī

zé
ān
zhī


Talking mends no holes.

kōng
tán
wú
bǔ


Talk of the devil and he will appear.

shuō
cáo
cāo

cáo
cāo
jìu
dào


Tall trees catch much wind.

shù
dà
zhāo
fēng


Teach others by your example.

gōng
qīn
shì
fàn


The best hearts are always the bravest.

wú

zhě
wú
wèi


The best man stumbles.

wěi
rén
yě
yǒu
fàn
cuò
shí


The cat shuts its eyes when stealing.

yǎn
ěr
dào
líng


The danger past and God forgotten.

guò
hé
chāi
qiáo


The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.


míng
qián
de
hēi
àn


The darkest place is under the candlestick.

zhú
tái

xià
zuì
àn


The devil knows many things because he is old.

lǎo
mǎ
shí
tú


The devil sometimes speaks the truth.

mó
guǐ
yǒu
shí
yě
huì
shuō
zhēn
huà


The die is cast.

mù

chéng
zhōu


The early bird catches the worm.

zǎo

de
niǎo
ér
yǒu
chóng
chī


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