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Return property to its owner, and your sleep will be peaceful.
Guatemalan Proverb
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
Native American Proverb
Wish thy friend joy of his journey, but pray in secret that he have no joy, for then may he return quickly to thee.
Egyptian Proverb
There is no return, worse luck; for could I return, I would foresee what has come into the country.
Lamba Proverb
A child one does not instruct on return, one instructs him when going.
Lamba Proverb
Though a tree grows ever so high, the falling leaves return to its roots.
Malawi Proverb
When you go to fetch water and do not return, they do not inquire about the pot.
Oji Proverb
Goods given make quicker return than goods held.
Tahitian Proverb
If someone hits you with a stone, hit him with bread; your bread will return to you and his stone will return to him.
Tunisian Proverb
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
Australian Aboriginal Proverb
There is no return, worse luck; for could I return, I would foresee what has come into the country.
Bantu Proverb
He who goes to the quarterdeck and forecastle will return to the hold eventualy.
Swahili Proverb
I have anointed you with kohl, do you, in return, anoint me with pepper?.
Swahili Proverb
Overturned water doesn't return to the tray.
Japanese Proverb
Time is like a river - it flows by and doesn't return.
Chinese Proverb
Fallen leaves return to the root.
Chinese Proverb
He who was presented with an ox must give in return a horse.
Chinese Proverb
What is fated to be yours will always return to you.
Chinese Proverb
He who pelts another with paddles asks for stones in return.
African Proverb
Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you.
African Proverb
To travel is to see, to return is to talk.
African Proverb
That what comes to stay has come it cannot return.
African Proverb
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