Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors


Swedish Proverb

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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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We do a sweep and check their I.D. cards before that time.
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Your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep.
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Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own.
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I like the energy, the sweep of the wings.
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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
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No one can pray well, but those who live well.
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Short prayers reach heaven.
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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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Practice is the best master.
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When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
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There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
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Time and I against any two.
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Soon enough is well enough.
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Now is the watchword of the wise.
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Lost time is never found again.
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He that falls by himself never cries.
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Never say die.
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