Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
More Russian Proverbs:
With seven nurses the child loses its eye.Russian
If age and experience came at birth, We would have neither youth nor mirth.
Russian
Glory lies still; abuse is running.
Russian
You have summer and you have winter -- why, then, be in a hurry?
Russian
Where you saw wood, there the sawdust will fall.
Russian
Money is like down -- one puff and it's gone.
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