Ancient Norse sayings
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When you're not given it, you don't have to thank anyone either.
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Headless army runs away when the goings get rough.
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The lowest fence it the easiest to get across.
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Rather a bit correctly than much incorrectly.
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Make skilled use of the good things, it's all the same hard.
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Who marries too hastily can regret it too constantly and wistfully.
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When the glacier sees the spring sun, he weeps.
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Poor thanks is of the way of the world.
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To make good and useful novelties is not for dunderheads.
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The summer moments always pass quickly.
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It is impossible to be the friend of everyone for long.
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What's good is often forgotten, what's bad is often hidden.
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Make deft use of what you learn to the degree you can gather.
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Given counsel is all the same hard to take.
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Things very often take a bad turn for shameless guys that are running free.
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It's bad to be ashamed for something very well done.
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Who marries in too great haste ends up as a half-slave at his place.
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Everybody's friend is true to none.
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Hid away hardly means forgotten.
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You can give a piece of advice, but not good luck along with that.
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Anyone has to live on top of good customs where he is settled.
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To be without money is better than to be without honour.
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A young man's will is the will of the wind.
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A woman's life is spent on a spinning wheel and inconsistency dwells
in her breast.
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Where there is no discipline, there is no honour.
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Age changes the hair, but not always the mind.
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Age is nothing to boast of; you get it for free.
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Even though the man forgets how old he is, his age does not forget him.
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When old age is good, youth is forgotten.
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It's best to search while the trail is new.
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To gather and spare can last long.
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With half a loaf and an empty cup,I found myself a friend.
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Rash is he who at unknown doors,relies on his good luck.
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Who travels widely needs his wits about him,the stupid should stay at home.
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Seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.
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Best is the banquet one looks back on after, and remembers all that happened.
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The coward believes he will live forever, if he holds back in the battle,
but in old age he shall have no peace.
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The herd knows its homing time, and leaves the grazing ground.
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An ill tempered, unhappy man, ridicules all he hears, makes fun of others.
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Foolish is he who frets at night, a weary man when morning comes,
he finds all as bad as before.
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The fool who fancies he is full of wisdom, while he sits by his hearth at home,
quickly finds when questioned by others, that he knows nothing at all.
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No one knows less what a nit-wit he is, than the man who talks too much.
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No man so rich, that it really gives him pain to be repaid.
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A man should be loyal through life to friends, but never shall a man
make offerof friendship to his foes.
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It is best for man to be middle-wise, not over cunning and clever.
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Much is lost by the late sleeper, wealth is won by the swift.
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It is safe to tell a secret to one, risky to tell it to two,
to tell it to three is thoughtless folly.
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Among the bold the bully will find, others as bold as he.
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To be blind is better than to burn on a pyre, there is nothing the dead can do.
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Cattle die, kindred die, every man is mortal, but the good name never dies.
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In the fool who acquires cattle and lands, or wins a woman's love,
his wisdom wanes with his waxing pride, he sinks from sense to conceit.
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Trust not an acre early sown, nor praise a son too soon,
weather rules the acre, wit the son, both are exposed to peril.
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No man should trust a maiden's words, nor what a woman speaks,
spun on a wheel were women's hearts, in their breasts was implanted caprice.
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Fairest we speak when falsest we think, many a maid is deceived.
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Shun a woman, wise in magic, her bed and her embraces:
If she cast a spell, you will care no longer to meet and speak with men, desire no food,
desire no pleasure, in sorrow fall asleep.
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Never lift your eyes and look up in battle, lest the heroes enchant you,
who can change warriors, suddenly into hogs.
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Be not over wary, but wary enough, first, of the foaming ale, second, of a woman
wed to another, third, of the tricks of thieves.
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Scoff not at guests nor to the gate chase them, but relieve the lonely and wretched.
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Never laugh at the old when they offer counsel, often their words are wise.
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Waxed and throve well, word from word gave words to me,
deed from deed gave deeds to me.
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If hate fester in the heart of a warrior, it will soon calm and cure him.
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