School: Gortloney (roll number 11978)
- Location:
- Gortloney, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Eoghan de Buitléir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 241
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- (continued from previous page)When your neighbour's house is on fire, take care of your own.
The wheel that is weak, is apt to creak.
No pains, no gains.
Leave your jest, when it's at the best.
Half a leap is a fall into the ditch.
Misgive, that you may not mistake.
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
Little dogs start the hare, but great ones catch it.
Kindle the dry sticks, and the green ones will catch
I will not willingly offend,
Nor be soon offended;
What's amiss I'll strive to mend,
And bear what can't be mended.
He whom nothing will satisfy, let him have nothing.
He that buys a house ready-wrought,
hath many a pin and nail for nought.
Hard upon hard makes a bad stone wall,
But soft upon soft makes nothing at all.
He who thinks only of serving himself is the slave of a slave.
He sups ill who eats all at dinner.
Good words are good but good deeds are better.
He buys honey dear, who licks it from thorns.
He who give way to anger, punishes himself for the fault of another.(continues on next page)
