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1 fire and water are good servants, but bad masters
var: fire is a good servant but a cruel masterвогонь і вода добрі служити, але лихі панувати ≅ з водою та вогнем не жартуй вогонь добрий слуга, але поганий хазяїн вода – не кумаEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > fire and water are good servants, but bad masters
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2 the passions are like fire and water: good servants but bad masters
пристрасті, як вогонь і вода – добрі служити, але лихі пануватиEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > the passions are like fire and water: good servants but bad masters
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3 fire is a good servant but a cruel master
English-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > fire is a good servant but a cruel master
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April borrows three days of March, and they are ill April showers bring forth May flowers fire and water are good servants, but bad masters it is not spring until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb a morning's rain is like an old woman's dance: it doesn't last long nature abhors a vacuum self-preservation is the first law of nature -
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absence cools moderate passions but inflames violent ones all the passions are extinguished with old age; self-love never dies fire that's closest kept burns most of all if passion drives, let reason hold the reins master your passion, lest it masters you a man in passion rides a mad horse the passions are like fire and water: good servants but bad masters please your eye and plague your heart the worst passions have their root in the best
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