Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
More Chinese Proverbs:
The one who first resorts to violence shows that he has no more arguments.Chinese
When the boat reaches mid-stream, it is too late to stop the leak.
Chinese
Life itself cannot give you joy/ Unless you really will it./ Life just gives you time and space -- It's up to you to fill it.
Chinese
Where a chest lieth open, a righteous man may sin.
Chinese
He who sees heaven in the water sees the fishes in the trees.
Chinese
When you fall into a pit, either you get out or die.
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