If thou wilt prospere, then loke to euery thynge thyne owne self. Even after eight editions in the 100 years after its first publication, Bullinger‘s words continued to ring true: If a man will haue his business well done, he must doe it himselfe.īut back in 1541, Henry Bullinger wrote and published “ The Christian State of Matrimony.” The book proved to be extremely popular with continental as well as English reforming Protestants. Not surprising, the phrase itself was an adage T. That’s what I always say if you want a thing to be well done, You must do it yourself, you must not leave it to others. The phrase was also found in one of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow‘s poems entitled “ The Courtship of Miles Standish” which he published in 1858: I always say, if you want a thing done well, do it yourself! One of many books they wrote was their 1975 book “ By Hook Or By Crook.” In that book, they wrote:ĭo you know how I got it done in the end? I went down to Annapolis myself.
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