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Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
-Swedish Proverb
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Beware of one who has nothing to lose.
-Italian Proverb
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If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.
-Proverb
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Beware of silent dogs and still waters.
-Proverb
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Caution is the parent of safety.
-Proverb
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When a fox preaches, take care of your geese.
-Proverb
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Always count the cost.
-Proverb
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Don't dance on a volcano.
-Proverb
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
-Alfred Adler
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Hasten slowly.
-Caesar Augustus
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Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father. Matthew 18:10
-Bible
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There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
-Josh Billings
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The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Look twice before you leap.
-Charlotte Bronte
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Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.
-Buddha
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Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
-Edmund Burke
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
-Lydia Maria Child
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
-E. M. Forster
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Beware the hobby that eats.
-Benjamin Franklin
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They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
-A. W. Hare
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
-Thomas Hobbes
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
-Thomas Jefferson
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Books about Caution
