School: De Freyne (roll number 16457)
- Location:
- Portaghard, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Gionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0243, Page 158
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- (continued from previous page)nothing by outward show, the feather floats, the pearl lies low. Let us not grieve at our lot though low it be cast for we know not what God may have in store for us. A high gallop comes to a low trot. The longest road is the road without a public house.
Old turf and old hay are old gold.
Late rising goes far in the day.
He who goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
Smooth water runs deep and the dirt lies at the bottom.
God never shuts one gate but he opens another.
You cannot serve two masters at the same time.
Truth is often bitter.
Time and tide wait for no one.
Hills are green far away.
If a farmer wants to get rich, let him keep a plough, a sow, and a cow.
Keep your shop and will keep you.
When poverty comes in on the door, luck flies out the window. No morning's sun lasts a whole day.
Strike the iron while it is hot.
A penny for your thoughts.(continues on next page)
