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EVIL doers are evil dreaders
a
1568
Schoolmaster
(1570) I. 27
Ill doinges, breed ill thinkinges. And corrupted manners, spryng perverted iudgements.
1721
Scottish Proverbs
176
Ill doers, ill deemers.
1737
Scots Proverbs
xix.
Ill doers are ay ill dreaders.
1828
Fair Maid of Perth
II. v.
Put me not to quote the old saw, that evil doers are evil dreaders.—It is your suspicion, not your knowledge, which speaks.
1886
Kidnapped
xxvii.
If you were more trustful, it would better befit your time of life … We have a proverb .. that evil doers are aye evil-dreaders.
conscience
;
wrong-doers
Of two EVILS choose the less
Cf. ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
II. ix. 1109a
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