School: An Clochar (roll number 14705)
- Location:
- Kilbarron, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mother Philomena
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 213
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- (continued from previous page)you would have others be to you. He who rises late, never does a good day’s work.
Industry pays debts, while despair increases them. For age and want, save while you may, no morning’s sun lasts a whole day.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Spare the rod, and spoil the child.
He, who by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
A ploughman on his feet, is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
Pride gets a fall.
If you scold at your breakfast, you will scold all day.
Waste not, want not.
There is as good fish in the sea as ever was caught.
The darkest hour is before the break of day.
If from all slips you keep, five things remark with care, of whom you speak, to whom you speak, and how, and when, and where.
You will never miss the water, until the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katie Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
