THE MOST USEFUL PROVERBS (Nepali to English)

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- A holy place nearby is often neglected.
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- All that glitters are not gold.
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- As you sow so shall you reap.
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- Barking dogs seldom bite.
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- One mans meat is another mans poison.
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- Hunger has no choice.
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- Strike the iron when it is hot.
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- He who wants to cross a river should not be afraid of
getting wet.
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- When the house is burnt down, the water.
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- Practice makes a man perfect.
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- Every rise has a fall.


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- Every dog has his day.
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- Face is a mirror of the heart.
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- The blind mans wife needs no makeup.
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- When a blind leads a blind, both fall into the ditch.
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- Trouble is easy to find but not happiness.
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- Some thing is better than nothing.
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- Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.
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- He who digs a pit for others falls into it himself.
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- Myself is a beggar, the beggar at the door.
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- The belly teaches all arts.


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- Experience teaches unskilled. / Experience is the mother of
knowledge.
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- When you have wealth you are in fear, when none you
are in danger.
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- Between saying and doing a pair of shoes is torn out.
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- Dry on the water.
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- Life is nine days wonder.
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- When money speaks, truth keeps silent.
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- Too much cunning over reaching itself.
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- Money is something but not everything.
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- Why to cry over split milk.
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- Learn to run before you run.
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- Too much of everything is bitter.
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- There is no cake, but there is the like of the same cake.
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- When one door shuts another opens.
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- Ill news are commonly true. / No smoke without fire.
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- No one knows the weight of another bur den.
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- One eye witness is better than ten hearsays.
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- What is the use of running when we are not on the right
road.
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- Quality speaks itself.
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- To fish in troubled water.

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- The moon is a moon still, whether it
shines or not.
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- An idle person always thinks of some mischief.
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- A poor mans tale cant be heard.
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- Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it.
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- Better be safe than sorry.
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- To count the chicken before they are hatched.
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- The appetite grows by eating.
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- A black hen may lay white egg.
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- Better rule in hell than serve in heaven.