School: Kilmessan (B.) (roll number 4210)
- Location:
- Cill Mheasáin, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Brian S. Pléimeann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0691, Page 142
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- (continued from previous page)(228) An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
(229) Good beginnings make good endings.
(230) Hunger is the mother of Impatience and Anger.
(231) Bread at pleasure, drink by measure.
(232) Long hope wears out joys, as long maladies wear out grief.
(233) Depend not on fortune, but conduct.]
(234) Hearsay is half lies.
(235) Save while you may for age and want.
(236) Do good and shun evil, this is the sum of human duty.
(237) Light suppers make long lives.
(238) He gives twice who gives quickly.
(239) May good digestion wait on appetite.
(240) Let the ticking clock guide the boiling crock.
(241) A willing heart lightens work.
(242) A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
(243) If any should not work neither(continues on next page)
