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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
Light
Many
Make

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Better is to bow than break.
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The more haste, the less speed.
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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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Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
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The more the merrier.
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When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.
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Better to be happy than wise.
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And death makes equal the high and low.
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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.
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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert The happy man's without a shirt.
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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 is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling
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When the devil drives, needs must.
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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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He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.
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When the sunne shineth, make hay.
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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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Burnt child fire dredth.
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Children and fools cannot lie.
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Rome was not built in one day.
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