School: Baile na Mín (roll number 14925)
- Location:
- Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0238, Page 437
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Its only labour in vain.
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Fair and easy goes far in the day.
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You can guess eggs where you see shells.
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Tell me your company and I'll tell you who you are.
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Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
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Scatter the feathers and bring them back.
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
28.One year's seeding is nine years' weeding.
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Wide will wear, but tight will tear.
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Dont look for a needle in a haystack.
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The older the crab-tree the more fruit it bears.
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Man proposes but God disposes.
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Long runs the fox but he's caught at last.
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Dont put things on the long finger.
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Kind father for him to be as he is.
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Dont Spur a free horse.
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Dont throw water on a drowned rat.
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Thinking is bad wit.
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A lying man tempts the devil.
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Children and fools should not handle edged tools.
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A burnt child dreads the fire.
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Spare the rod and spoil the child.
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Bend the rod while it is weak.(continues on next page)
