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Good deeds never leave home, bad ones echo a thousand miles.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about deeds, home, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

A one-inch error at the start can be a thousand miles at the end.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about error, end

Over a distance of a thousand miles only humanity works, not power.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about humanity, power

You can accompany a friend for a thousand miles but at some time you must take your leave.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about time

A borrowed horse and your own spurs make short miles.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The next mile is the only one a person really has to make.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about people

Stay a while, and lose a mile.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Hired horses make short miles.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Good company makes short miles.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about companies, good, good luck

A hired horse and one's own spurs make short miles.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Talking a mile a minute.

Proverbs and old sayings English about talking

A miss by an inch is a miss by a mile.

Proverbs and old sayings English

After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Water runs a whole mile downstream easier than an inch upstream.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about water

After dinner stand a while, or walk nearly half a mile.

Proverbs and old sayings German

An error no wider than a hair will lead a hundred miles away from the goal.

Proverbs and old sayings German about purpose, error

The crab that walks miles too far will fall into the pot.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about fall

Failures are but mileposts on the road to success.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

One's own spurs and another's horse make the miles short.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

An evil act runs a thousand miles.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese