Yoridan ayrilgan yetti yil yig'lar, yurtidan ayrilgan o'lguncha yig'lar.
“One parted from a beloved weeps seven years; one parted from their homeland weeps until death.”
The grief of losing a loved one is deep but eventually eases, while the sorrow of being separated from one's homeland lasts a lifetime.
— Traditional Uzbekistan Wisdom, Uzbekistan
Source: Traditional Uzbek proverb, public-domain oral tradition (recorded in the n.ziyouz.com "vatan va vatanparvarlik" folk-proverb collection)
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