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(698 votes)  Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

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(236 votes)  However long the night, the dawn will break.

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(236 votes)  We should put out fire while it is still small. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

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(232 votes)  There is no bad patience. - (Knappert, p. 46, Swahili).

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(232 votes)  Do not vacillate or you will be left in between doing something, having something and being nothing. - Ethiopia

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(232 votes)  People know each other better on a journey. Plaatje

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(230 votes)  It is foolhardy to climb two trees at once just because one has two feet. - Ethiopia

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(229 votes)  The young can't teach traditions to the old. - Yoruba proverb

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(228 votes)  A Dog that steals sells its body. - Luyia proverbs , Western Kenya

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(227 votes)  Blind belief is dangerous. - Luyia , Western Kenya

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(227 votes)  We should talk while we are still alive. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

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(226 votes)  The pillar of the world is hope. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria

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(225 votes)  Bad dancing does not brake an engagement. - Luyia , Western Kenya

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(225 votes)  He has not married a woman; for she is [the equal of] a man. Sechuana

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(224 votes)  A dog knows the places he is thrown food.

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(224 votes)  A Champion bull starts from birth. - Luyia.Western Kenya

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(224 votes)  Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria

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(224 votes)  A donkey knows no gratitude. - (Knappert, p. 138, Swahili)

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(222 votes)  A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria

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(222 votes)  We add wisdom to knowledge. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

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(222 votes)  Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up. - Cape Coast, Ghana

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(221 votes)  There is no medicine against old age. - Accra proverb, Ghana

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(221 votes)  If there is cause to someone, the cause to love has just begun. - Wolof proverb, Senegal

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(221 votes)  Do not follow a person who is running a way. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

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(220 votes)  Rising early makes the road short. - Wolof proverb, Senegal

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(218 votes)  A messenger cannot be beaten . - Luyia proverbs , Western Kenya

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(218 votes)  When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb

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(217 votes)  That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb

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(217 votes)  The eye is a coward. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

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(217 votes)  The chicken is never declared in the court of hawks. - Cape Coast, Ghana

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(215 votes)  The teeth of a man serve as a fence. - Wolof proverb, Senegal

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(215 votes)  A hyena cannot smell its own stench. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

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(214 votes)  One does not love if one does not accept from others. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria

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(214 votes)  God is our neighbour when our brother is absent. - (Knappert, p. 33, Swahili)

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(213 votes)  Even a friend can not rescue one from old age. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

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(213 votes)  A low-class man will just talk; deeds are the hallmark of a gentleman. - (Knappert, p. 84, Swahili)

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(213 votes)  He flees from the roaring lion to the crouching lion. Sechuana

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(212 votes)  He who marries a real beauty is seeking trouble. - Accra proverb, Ghana

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(212 votes)  You can not take away someone's luck. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

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(211 votes)  The pillar of the world is hope. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria

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(211 votes)  Water can not be forced uphill. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

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(209 votes)  The good looks of a moron do not stay that way for long. - Ethiopia (Ayele, p. 23, Amharic)

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(209 votes)  When you are at home, your troubles can never defeat you. - Cape Coast, Ghana

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(207 votes)  It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal

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(206 votes)  The climber of ladders will descend [the ambitious person will be brought back down]. - (Knappert, p. 93, Swahili)

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(205 votes)  The haughty blind person picks a fight with his guide. - Ethiopia

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(203 votes)  A stranger does not skin a sheep that is paid as a fine at a chief's court. - Cape Coast, Ghana

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(194 votes)  The best of mankind is a farmer; the best food is fruit. - Ethiopia

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(194 votes)  The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast. - Cape Coast, Ghana

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(186 votes)  A sorcerer has no distinctive colour. Sechuana

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