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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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All's well that ends well.
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Good to be merie and wise.
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To give importance to trifling matters.
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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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The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
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Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
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Tis not the robe or garment I affect For who would marry with a suit of clothes?
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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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It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
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He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.
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