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John Heywood
Age: 83 †
Born: 1497
Born: January 1
Died: 1580
Died: January 1
Aphorist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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London
England
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Nails
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He makes a beggar first that first relieves him Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.
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A day after the faire.
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It's an ill wind that blows no good.
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A woman hath nine lives like a cat.
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A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!
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The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
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Don't put the cart before the horse.
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This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
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Rome was not built in one day.
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Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
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I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.
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To give importance to trifling matters.
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The more the merrier.
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Many hands make light work.
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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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I know on which side my bread is buttered.
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Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.
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Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
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Good to be merie and wise.
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One swallow never makes a summer.
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