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"Of a good beginning cometh a good end."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"Shee had seene far in a milstone."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"Better late than never."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"Pryde will have a fall; For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"The still sowe eats up all the draffe."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"Ill weede growth fast."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"It is a deere collop That is cut out of th' owne flesh."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"Beggars should be no choosers."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"The rolling stone never gathereth mosse."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"To robbe Peter and pay Poule."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"A man may well bring a horse to the water, But he cannot make him drinke without he will."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"While the grasse groweth the horse starveth."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Rome was not built in one day."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Yee have many strings to your bowe."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Many small make a great."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Better is halfe a lofe than no bread."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Nought venter nought have."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Children and fooles cannot lye."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Set all at sixe and seven."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"All is fish that comth to net."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?"
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"One good turne asketh another."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"By hooke or crooke."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"She frieth in her owne grease."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us last night."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"But in deede, A friend is never knowne till a man have neede."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.
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"New brome swepth cleene."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.
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"All thing is the woorse for the wearing."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.
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"Burnt child fire dredth."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.
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"All is not Gospell that thou doest speake."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.
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"Love me litle, love me long."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.
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"A fooles bolt is soone shot."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iii.
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"A woman hath nine lives like a cat."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
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"A peny for your thought."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
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"You stand in your owne light."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
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"Though chaunge be no robbry."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
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"Might have gone further and have fared worse."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
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"The grey mare is the better horse."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
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"Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Small pitchers have wyde eares."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Many hands make light warke."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain