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PRACTICE makes perfect
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perish

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he who LIVES by the sword dies by the sword
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perjury

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JOVE but laughs at lovers' perjury
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PHYSICIAN, heal thyself

With allusion to
LUKE
iv. 23 (AV) Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself. (
VULGATE
:
medice cura teipsum
.)

c
1400
tr.
Honorius of Autun's Elucidarium
(1909) 29
Blynde leches [doctors], heeleth first youre silf!
1519
Sermon to Convocation
B5
^VIf you wyll ponder and loke vpon oure mottis [motes] fyrst take awaye the blockes out of your eies. Hit is an olde Prouerbe: Phisition heale thy selfe.
1780
tr.
Lucian's Works
I. 320
According to the old adage, ‘physician, cure thyself.’
1875
Thrift
ii.
How can a man .. teach sobriety or cleanliness, if he be himself drunken or foul? ‘Physician, heal thyself,’ is the answer of his neighbours.
1979
Skeletons
150
Tell me the truth. Don't dig yourself in any deeper. Physician, heal thyself.