Sentence examples for proverb of from inspiring English sources

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It's the proverb of a whaler: go big or go home.

The best-known proverb of "The Way to Wealth" has vexed generations of the lazy-boned and sleepy-headed.

It is in one of these stories that a favourite proverb of his makes its first appearance: "Let the hawk perch and let the eagle perch".

It's also the proverb of the successful game developer working in 2012, who understands that, in time, familiarity usually breeds contempt in the modern audience.

Yes, writers, composers, and painters often live that way, too, fulfilling William Blake's Proverb of Hell "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom".

He told the proverb of the house rat who went swimming with his friend the lizard and died from cold, for while the lizard's scales kept him dry the rat's hairy body remained wet.

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It is the reverse of the proverb 'Out of sight is out of mind'.

The old proverb, "Out of sight, out of mind," is true.

It consists of two principal collections of early origin called "the proverbs of Solomon" and "proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied".

The "proverbs of Solomon" (10 1 22 16) consist entirely of parallelistic couplets the mashal in its primitive form.

The Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, composed in 1965 for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskarealmostmost equally fine, too.

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