School: Carraig na Heorna (roll number 10938)
- Location:
- Carricknahorna, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Susan Mary Irwin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 369
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- (continued from previous page)23 Man proposes, but God disposes.
21 A good word never broke a person’s mouth.
23 The truth never choked a man.
26 God made the back for burden.
25 A closed mouth and a wise head [sic]
26 It is difficult to cut wool off a goat.
27 The thing that doesn’t pertain to you, don’t mind it [sic]
28 The image of death is sleep.
29 The grip of a drowned man.
30 Here is no help or cure against death.
31 A borrowed horse had hard hooves.
32 Cows over the see have long horns.
33 People meet, but the hills or the mountain do not meet.
36 Hunger is a good sauce.
35 A blind man is a bad jusge of colours.
36 Throwing apples into the orchard.
37 What the ear will not hear will not trouble the heart.
38 The deed will praise itself.
39 Tell me your company, and I will tell you who you are.
40 Praise youth and it will come.
41 A good beginning is half the work.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susan Mary Irwin
- Gender
- Female
