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It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
It came upon the midnight clear
That glorious song of old
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold
Peace on the earth, good will to men
From heaven's all gracious King
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear...
Carols
A baby on its mother's back doesn't know the journey is long.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother
Too many cooks, cooking at the same time makes the day take long to break.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about time, day
Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about food, water
It's the tortoise's shell, ugly and hard that protects its life long journey on earth.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth, life
Shall we kill a snake and carry it in our hand when we have a bag for putting long things in?
Proverbs and old sayings West African about things
A man who touches the bottom of a soup plate with a ball of foofoo is no longer searching for soup.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about searching, man
A marketplace is not the pace for a husband and wife to argue. However long the night may last, there will be a morning. Daylight follows a dark night.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about night, dark, husband, wife
Have fun while you live, because you are going to be dead a long time.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about time, americans
When you buy friends with anything other than friendship, they do not stay bought long.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about friendship, commerce, americans
If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day long.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about things, nothing, day, americans
The goat slaughtered for a man who is sick now, finds another who ws sick long before.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
It's better to die two years early than to live one year too long.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
One false step brings everlasting grief. Short please, long lament.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about sadness
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about time, man
A man is old when he takes the whole night to do what he used to do all night long.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about night, man, old, olderness
To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a long drought.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about country, rain, old, olderness
The flowers in your garden don't smell as sweet as those in the wild, but they last much longer.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flowers, garden
To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about day, good, good luck
