A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

TRUTH makes the Devil blush
Perhaps a variant of TELL the truth and shame the Devil.

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  1944 ‘A. GILBERT’ Death at Door (1945) viii. 81 Crook caught back a quick exclamation. Truth may make the devil blush but that doesn’t mean the devil doesn’t frequently get the best of it. 1955 H. KEMP Death of Dwarf ix. 82 ‘So I shall not break my rule: never to say a thing about anybody until I’m sure it’s true, and not always then. Truth makes the devil blush. That’s true enough; but if it turns out not to be the truth after all, it only sets him giggling.’ "truth
  

TRUTH will out
Similar in form to MURDER will out.

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  1439 LYDGATE Life of St. Alban (1974) 203 Trouthe wil out. .. Ryghtwysnesse may nat ben hid. 1596 SHAKESPEARE Merchant of Venice II. ii. 73 Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long; a man’s son may, but in the end truth will out. 1822 M. EDGEWORTH Letter 17 Jan. (1971) 324 Whether about a novel or a murder the truth will out. 2001 Spectator 17 Nov. 35 It has just been announced that the EU is to hold its own public inquiry into the [foot-and-mouth] epidemic, in Strasbourg next year. At last, perhaps, truth will out. "concealment; truth
  

truth see also CHILDREN and fools tell the truth; the GREATER the truth, the greater the libel; HALF the truth is often a whole lie; a LIE is halfway round the world; TELL the truth and shame the Devil.
try see you never KNOW what you can do till you try; if at first you don’t SUCCEED, try, try, try, again.
tsar see GOD is high above, and the tsar is far away.
Every TUB must stand on its own bottom
A proverb advocating independence and initiative.

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  1564 W. BULLEIN Dialogue against Fever 48V Let euery Fatte [vat] stande vpon his owne bottome. 1639 J. CLARKE Paramiologia Anglo-Latina 66 Every tub must stand on his owne bottome. 1721 C. CIBBER Refusal v. 7211 have nothing to do with that. .. Let every Tub stand on its own Bottom. 1948 F. THOMPSON Still glides Stream iv. ‘Every tub must stand on its own bottom,’ was one of his homely ways of expressing the individual independence desirable in children. 1994 H. N. THOMAS Spirits in Dark xviii. 2141 know the Old Testament tell us that the sins o’ the fathers get visited on the children, but yo’ mustn’ have a hand in that. Let ‘every tub must sit ‘pon its own bottom.’ ■independence