"John Heywood" was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. Although he is best known as a playwright, he was also active as a musician and composer, though no works survive.

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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

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Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

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When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

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Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

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A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.

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Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.

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Rome was not built in one day.

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