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John Heywood
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John Heywood
Age: 83 †
Born: 1497
Born: January 1
Died: 1580
Died: January 1
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Burnt child fire dredth.
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Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
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It's an ill wind that blows no good.
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Don't put the cart before the horse.
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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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For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.
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Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
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Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.
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Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
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Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
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The still sowe eats up all the draffe.
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She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
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The more the merrier.
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A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.
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I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.
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Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
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Of a good beginning cometh a good end.
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But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
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Children and fooles cannot lye.
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A short horse is soone currid.
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