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"Even the longest day has its end."
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"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
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"The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate."
Geoffrey Chaucer / Canterbury Tales. Persones Tale.
Canterbury Tales. Persones Tale.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Old proverbe says, That byrd ys not honest That fyleth hys owne nest."
John Skelton / Poems against Garnesche.
Poems against Garnesche.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Haste maketh waste."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Beware of, Had I wist."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Good to be merie and wise."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Beaten with his owne rod."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Look ere ye leape."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The fat is in the fire."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"When the sunne shineth, make hay."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"When the iron is hot, strike."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The tide tarrieth no man."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"So many heads so many wits."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Wedding is destiny, And hanging likewise."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Happy man, happy dole."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Like will to like."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A hard beginning maketh a good ending."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"When the skie falth we shall have Larkes."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"More frayd then hurt."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Nothing is impossible to a willing hart."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The wise man sayth, store is no sore."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Rule the rost."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Hold their noses to grinstone."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Better to give then to take."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"When all candles bee out, all cats be gray."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"I perfectly feele even at my fingers end."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. vi.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. vi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A sleveless errand."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. vii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"We both be at our wittes end."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Reckeners without their host must recken twice."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A day after the faire."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Cut my cote after my cloth."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The neer to the church, the further from God."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Better is to bow then breake."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"It hurteth not the toung to give faire words."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Two heads are better then one."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A short horse is soone currid."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"To tell tales out of schoole."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"To hold with the hare and run with the hound."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"All is well that endes well."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain