You can't divide your effort between multiple things and do them well | Mircea Eliade NY: MacMillan Library Reference USA, 1987 , 9: 165 |
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someone ugly for his money, the money will go away and the monkey will stay the same as ugly as ever | English equivalent: Every dog has its day |
English equivalent: No good deed goes unpunished | I bear witness that there is no god to be worshiped but Allah two times |
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O Allah, reward me for my affliction, and give me something better than it | English equivalent: Blood is thicker than water |
Or alternatively, they fail to apply the advice and expertise they have for others to their own life.