The water that a ship sails on is the same water that swallows it up.
More Chinese Proverbs:
A bird does not sing because he has the answer to something, he sings because he has a song.Chinese
Insects do not nest in a busy door-hinge.
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Jade and men, both are sharpened by bitter tools.
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Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great.
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Better a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
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Cheat the earth and the earth will cheat you.
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