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School: Mágh Glas

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Moyglass, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0052, Page 0016

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    "Truth is your fairest guiding star". "Rising late you must gallop all day". "Work ill begun is never well done". "Open minds make observant scholars". "Courage is half the battle". "There are as good a fish in the sea as were caught yet". "The proof of the pudding is in eating it". "Gods help is nearer than the door". "Wilful waste makes woeful want". "The ready way round is the shortest way home". "All light tasks are hard at first".
    "Every new brush sweeps clean". "If its a sin to be yellow there are thousands damned". "Better late than ever". Birds of a feather flock together.
    "Idleness is a short road to misery". "Many hands make light work". "There is no rose without a thorn". "When it rains it pours". "Truth is stranger than fiction". "A bird in your hand is better than two in a bush". "The early bird catches the early worm" "A thing of beauty is joy for ever". "Spare the rod and spoil the child". "None but the brave deserve the fair". "Laugh and the world laughs with you". "Keep a firm grip on your home steads".
    "Look before you leap". "Knowledge is power". "Bread is the staff of life". "A mans house is his castle". "Plough deep while sluggards sleep". "God helps those who helps themselves. Charity begins at home but should not end there. The cure is as bad as the disease. Weary lies the head that wears the crown. Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt. Where there is a will there is a way. One swallow never made a Summer. The proper study of mankind is man. He who does not sow in Spring will not reap in Autumn. The wise man always carries his coat. Early to bed and early to rise is the way to be healthy wealthy and wise.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlín Ní Chomair
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynakill, Co. Galway