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John Heywood
Age: 83 †
Born: 1497
Born: January 1
Died: 1580
Died: January 1
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London
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The still sowe eats up all the draffe.
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A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!
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This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
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For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.
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It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
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The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
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A woman hath nine lives like a cat.
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And death makes equal the high and low.
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One good turne asketh another.
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The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
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Make hay while the sun shines.
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The moon is made of a green cheese.
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Better to give then to take.
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Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
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None so blind as those who won't see.
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Three may keep counsel, if two be away.
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Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
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To give importance to trifling matters.
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When the sunne shineth, make hay.
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