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Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
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Collection: Wedding
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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.
- John Heywood
Collection: Experience
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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
- John Heywood
Collection: Good
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Many hands make light work.
- John Heywood
Collection: Work
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There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.
- John Heywood
Collection: People
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Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Heywood
Collection: Inspirational
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A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.
- John Heywood
Collection: Horse
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Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
- John Heywood
Collection: Hands
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If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.
- John Heywood
Collection: Life Changing
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All's well that ends well.
- John Heywood
Collection: Wise
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God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.
- John Heywood
Collection: Meat
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Hunger makes hard beans sweet.
- John Heywood
Collection: Sweet
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Every dog has its day.
- John Heywood
Collection: Wise
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Rome was not built in one day.
- John Heywood
Collection: Rome
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The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
- John Heywood
Collection: Rolling
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The nearer to the church, the further from God.
- John Heywood
Collection: Inspirational
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I know on which side my bread is buttered.
- John Heywood
Collection: Food
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For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.
- John Heywood
Collection: Ells
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Beggars should be no choosers.
- John Heywood
Collection: Should
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Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
- John Heywood
Collection: Music
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Hit the nail on the head.
- John Heywood
Collection: Wise
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Good to be merie and wise.
- John Heywood
Collection: Wise
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Better to be happy than wise.
- John Heywood
Collection: Happiness
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When the iron is hot, strike.
- John Heywood
Collection: Opportunity
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When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
- John Heywood
Collection: Cat
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Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
- John Heywood
Collection: Pleasure
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To give importance to trifling matters.
- John Heywood
Collection: Giving
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One good turn asketh another.
- John Heywood
Collection: Kindness
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It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
- John Heywood
Collection: Flesh
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Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.
- John Heywood
Collection: Water
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The wise man sayth, store is no sore.
- John Heywood
Collection: Wise
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Look before you leap.
- John Heywood
Collection: Wise
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Many handis make light warke.
- John Heywood
Collection: Light
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The more the merrier.
- John Heywood
Collection: Inspirational
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What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?
- John Heywood
Collection: Heart
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Nought venture nought have.
- John Heywood
Collection: Risk
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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.
- John Heywood
Collection: Men
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It's an ill wind that blows no good.
- John Heywood
Collection: Wise
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Little pitchers have big ears.
- John Heywood
Collection: Wise
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Small pitchers have wyde eares.
- John Heywood
Collection: Pitcher
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One swallow maketh not summer.
- John Heywood
Collection: Summer
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Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
- John Heywood
Collection: Men
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I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.
- John Heywood
Collection: Ends
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When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.
- John Heywood
Collection: Stable
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Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.
- John Heywood
Collection: Bye
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
- John Heywood
Collection: Birthday
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A good wife maketh a good husband.
- John Heywood
Collection: Marriage
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There is no fool to the old fool.
- John Heywood
Collection: Fool
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The happy man's without a shirt.
- John Heywood
Collection: Happiness

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