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Put your hand in your conscience and see if it don't come out as black as pitch.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about conscience, magic

Put your hand in your conscience and see if it does not come out as black as pitch.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about conscience, magic

No one is a blacksmith when they are born.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

Cherries are bitter to the glutted blackbird.

Proverbs and old sayings French about bitter

It is by forging that one becomes a blacksmith.

Proverbs and old sayings French

If the fire does not burn you the smoke will blacken you.

Proverbs and old sayings French about smoke, fire, fire brigade

One cannot wash a blackamoor white.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Who blackens others, does not whiten himself.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who blackens others does not whiten himself.

Proverbs and old sayings German

When a dove begins to fly with crows, its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.

Proverbs and old sayings German about magic, heart

When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.

Proverbs and old sayings German about magic, heart

If the goat says it will become a sheep, there will always be black spots on its body.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about body, magic

One blacksmith envies another.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Everyone is the blacksmith of his own fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about wealth

She who dances with the chimney sweeper will eventually end up black.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about magic, end

The shoemaker's wife and the blacksmith's horse often go unshod.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wife

There'll be white blackbirds before an unwilling woman ties the knot.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman

The blacksmith's horse and the cobbler's wife are always the last to have shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wife

Who paints me before blackens me behind.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

If you talk to the blacksmith you'll get hit by sparks.

Proverbs and old sayings