School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 201
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- (continued from previous page)run to hell.
When the old cock crows the young one learns.
All is not gold the glitters.
Time and tide wait for no man.
A windy day is not the day for thatching.
A blind man is a bad judge of colours.
Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.
A small lake will sink a big ship.
An empty sack does not stand.
There is scarcely a sin in the world that is in my eyes such a crying one as ingratitude.
I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
Tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best one.
Great men are seldom oversuperfluous in the arrangement of their attire.
An opening won't come to one but one must go to it.
Haggard anxiety and remorse are bad companions to be barred up with.
Hunger and recent ill-usage are great assistants if you want to cry.
