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Measure a thousand times, cut once.

Measure a thousand times and cut once.

A thousand regrets do not cancel one debt.

A single advantage is worth a thousand sorceries.

A single bad experience is worth a thousand threats.

A thousand years hence the river will run as it did.

One bad experience is worth more than a thousand threats.

The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns.

Even if you know a thousand things, still consult him who knows something.

A day in prison is longer than a thousand years at large.

A destroyer can defeat thousands of earthenware makers.

Praise the Saviour All ye Nations

Praise the Saviour, all ye nations,
Praise Him, all ye hosts above;
Shout, with joyful acclamation,
His divine, victorious love;
Be His kingdom now promoted,
Let the earth her Monarch know;
Be my...

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

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The radiant and well-understood speech of one person is better than the speech of a thousand people that is not.

It is not right to ask a man with elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on small pox as well, when thousands of other people have not had even their share of small diseases.

Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times, for a double crossing friend knows more evil.

Without sowing a single wheat you would not harvest thousand ones.

An answer that does not resolve a quarrel makes a thousand new ones.

O man, you who do not live a hundred years, why fret a thousand minutes?

Read critically, and you will find each word worth a thousand ounces of gold.