By experiencing hardship
You will become experienced
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There are thousands of owners for something done right
There is one owner for something done wrong
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If a person tries hard
Destiny will try hard
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From a little bit of laziness
Much laziness will come
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Talk little
Do much
If you have many friends
You are rich
If a friend’s deed is successful
Your deed will be successful
Have many friends
Rather than a thousand lan
(a lan is a unit of Chinese currency)
If a turag* is tired, it goes to the mountain
If a person is tired, he goes to relatives
This could be used when a person is tired and goes to visit relatives or advice to someone who is tired.
If the in-laws become bad, a person leans on his relatives
If wild sheep becomes weak, they can lean on the mountain
It says that when someone is tired or having problems with their in-laws they should go to their relatives.
(from “Mongolian Proverbs” by Janice Raymond, Alethinos Books, 2010)
*turag is a word for argali, the wild sheep
Susan Fox, American Artist 