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As the day lengthens, so the cold strengthens.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about day

In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.

Proverbs and old sayings

The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Proverbs and old sayings about weakness, enemies

The bird that pecks at a rock trusts in the strength of its beak.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about rocks

The strength of a nation is its knowledge.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about nation, knowledge

The strength of the old is their ready counsel.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about moral, old, olderness

Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about air, food, things

The cold strengthens you more than hunger.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about hunger

Hope may give a man strength, but not sense.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about common sense, sense, hope, man

The strong will always rule, it's only a question of the content of the strength.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about question, rules

Man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet but without strength; in old age, strong but harsh.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about olderness, age, wine, man, old

Every time you forgive a man you weaken him and strengthen yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about time, americans, man

Youths are like waves of the sea, the elderly have strength instead of tide.

Proverbs and old sayings

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Proverbs and old sayings Hasidic about heart

Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about determination, problems, work, life

Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

If the young had the motivation and the old had the strength, there'd be nothing that couldn't be accomplished.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about motivation, nothing, old, olderness

Ask help from the spirits after having used all your strength.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about help