1118 Proverbs about Self / Page 51
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He thinks that he himself is the very stone that was hurled at the castle.1002.
What I'm afraid to hear I'd better say first myself.1003.
You can keep away from the rogue, but you cannot keep yourself safe from the liar.1004.
You have exposed yourself.1005.
Don't praise tomorrow because tomorrow praises itself.1006.
A proverb does not answer itself.1007.
He is not wise that is not wise for himself.1008.
True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.1009.
A ripe melon falls by itself.1010.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset..1011.
What you are is God's gift to you what you do with yourself is your gift to God.1012.
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.1013.
He who handle pitch besmears himself.1014.
Sin is not perfect until one prides oneself on it.1015.
Do not choose for anyone what you do not choose for yourself.1016.
He who is an ass and takes himself to be a stag finds his mistake when he comes to leap the ditch.1017.
He who teaches often learns himself.1018.
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.1019.
If haply a fool should find for himself wealth or a woman's love, pride waxes in him but wisdom never and onward he fares in his folly.1020.
Cattle die and kinsmen die, thyself too soon must die, but one thing never, I ween, will die, The doom on each one dead.Quotes related to Self by Power Quotations