Search in folklore: keeping

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Keeping from falling is better than helping up.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Keeping a secret is a commitment.

Proverbs and old sayings about secret

Keeping an eye on the sail.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Keeping the finger on the wrist.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Keeping silence won't get you to court.

Proverbs and old sayings about silence

Keeping yourself and your food clean, you'll get more from it.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about food

Keeping from falling is better then helping up.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Keeping is harder than winning.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Keeping a woman to her word is like trying to hold an eel by its tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about word, woman

People are consumed by evil because of keeping close to it, but not because of keeping away from it.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

Sleeping prayer

I am placing my soul and my body
On Thy sanctuary this night, O God,
On Thy sanctuary, O Jesus Christ,
On Thy sanctuary, O Spirit of perfect truth,
The Three who would defend my cause,
Nor turn Their backs upon me....

Spells and incantations British

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Proverbs and old sayings Arab about heart

Wit is folly unless a wise man hath the keeping of it.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

To open a shop is easy -- the hard part is keeping it open.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

It is easy to open a store -- the hard part is keeping it open.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

While keeping a tiger from the front door, the wolf comes in at the back.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

One's skills are his inexhaustible treasure keeping him from hunger wherever he goes.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about treasure, hunger

The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about art, magic, money

A blind man's wife is God's keeping.

Proverbs and old sayings about blind, wife, god, man