Famous Proverbs
30 Proverbs about Thyself / Page 3
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Look to thyself when thy neighbour's house is on fire.22.
If thou thyself canst do it, attend no other's help or hand.23.
The counsel thou wouldst have another keep, first keep it thyself.24.
If thou seest ought amiss, mend it in thyself.25.
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.26.
Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft, and a curse on thy head will be called.27.
Cattle die and kinsmen die, thyself too soon must die, but one thing never, I ween, will die, The doom on each one dead.28.
Seek not ever to draw to thyself in love-whispering another's wife.29.
Growl not at guests, nor drive them from the gate but show thyself gentle to the poor.30.
Make thyself a sheep, and the wolf is ready.