School: Cnoc an Choillín, Cootehall

Location:
Knockaculleen or Hollymount, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Máire Ní Mhártain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 012

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 012

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    4. Covet all and lose all.
    5. Do well and have well.
    6. Great deeds can never die.
    7. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
    8. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
    9. Hunger is the best sauce.
    10. Idle people never prosper.
    11. Habit is a friend or foe.
    12. Better to die than to lie.
    13. A light heart lives long.
    14. Idleness is a short road to misery.
    15. No rose without a thorn.
    16. Kind words soften anger.
    17. Take the ball at the hop.
    18. Beware of those whose eyebrows meet.
    19. Between two stools we come to the ground.
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        1. proverbs (~4,377)
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