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A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.

John Heywood

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John Heywood
Age: 83 †
Born: 1497
Born: January 1
Died: 1580
Died: January 1
Aphorist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
London
England
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Three may keep counsel, if two be away.
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When all candles are out, all cats are grey, All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire, Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.
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He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.
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It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
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The happy man's without a shirt.
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Better to give then to take.
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The more haste, the less speed.
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Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
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Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
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It hurts not the tongue to give faire words.
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One swallow never makes a summer.
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The nearer to the church, the further from God.
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Many handis make light warke.
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Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.
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One good turne asketh another.
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