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a
bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
. This means you should not risk losing something you have by seeking something that is not guaranteed.
Here is another piece of advice:
Do not
count your chickens before they are hatched.
In other words, you should not think too much about some future event before it really happens.
Another proverb warns
do not put all your eggs in one basket.
This means you should not put all of your resources together in one place because you could risk losing everything at one time. Many Americans learned this the hard way by investing all their money in stock shares, which then lost value. Another proverb says