Tickle it with a hoe and it will laugh into a harvest.
More Traditional Proverbs:
Pain is only weakness leaving the bodyTraditional
Not the quarry, but the chase, Not the trophy, but the race
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It is better to finish something than begin.
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Each truth you learn will be, for you, as new as if it had never been written.
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Without knowledge there is no sin
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Tomorrow or next life - which comes first, we will never know
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