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单词 self do, self have
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self do, self have
P2. Proverb. self do, self have: you will earn the rewards of your own actions; (in negative contexts) you must face the consequences of your own actions; cf. to reap where (a person) has sown at reap v.1 Phrases 1. Obsolete.
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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. viii. sig. C For I dyd it my selfe: and selfe do, selfe haue.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 29 Selfe doe, selfe haue, they whette their swords against themselues.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 99 You are the cause of all this your owne selfe; and selfe do, selfe have.
1659 J. Harris Peace & not Warre 34 Yet although you lay all these foundations to contract debts, you are loth to have any hand in the payment: but soft and fair, self do, self have; if you will have Princes you must maintain them.
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. 394 But self-do self-have, for sharp Grapes cannot make sweet Wine.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxii. 220 If there should be any misunderstanding between one of them and you, we should all interpose..: But with the other, it would be self-do self-have.
1874 Fortn. Rev. Sept. 373 Act on the stout old maxim, ‘Self do, self have!’ Assistance will assuredly follow such manly and self-reliant action.
1899 J. Spence Shetland Folk-lore 214 The universal truth that whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap, is very curtly expressed in four syllables—‘Sel' dö, sel' hae’.
extracted from selfpron.adj.n.adv.
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