110 Asian-Indian Proverbs / Page 4
- 31. He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.
 - 32. He who loves the truth has many enemies.
- 33. Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! thine own has reached the shore.
- 34. I bought the nettle, sowed the nettle, and then the nettle stung me.
- 35. If a man's heart be impure, all things will appear hostile to him.
- 36. IF you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included.
- 37. If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.
- 38. If you gently touch a nettle it'll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle, an' as soft as silk remains.
- 39. If you have planted a tree you must water it too.
- 40. Ignorance is the peace of life.
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