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One HOUR's sleep before midnight is worth two after
1640Outlandish Proverbs
no. 882
One houres sleepe before midnight is worth three after.
1670
English Proverbs
37
One hours sleep before midnight's worth two hours after.
1829
Advice to Young Men
I. xxxviii.
It is said by the country-people that one hour's sleep before midnight is worth more than two are worth after midnight; and this I believe to be a fact.
1937
Summer Half
iii.
Now, Mr. Winter, remember my boys when you come up! Every hour's sleep before twelve is worth two afterwards, you know.
health
hour
When HOUSE and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent
Of similar vintage isLEARNING is better than house and land
.
1752Taste
I. i.
It has always been my Maxum .. to give my Children Learning enough; for, as the old Saying is, When house and Land are gone and spent, then Learning is most excellent.
1896
Broom-Squire
xxvi.
I have .. got Simon to write for me, on the fly-leaf …When land is gone, and money is spent, Then learning is most excellent.
learning;
property
A HOUSE divided cannot stand
With allusion to
MATTHEW
xii. 25 (AV) Every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.
a
1050
Liber Scintillarum
(EETS) 133
Drihten segth .. ælc ceaster oththe hus todæled ongean hit sylf, hit na stynt.
c
1704
in
Journal in Works
(1751) 42
My Mother would often say,
A House divided could not stand
.
1858
Speech
16 June in
Works
(1953) II. 461
‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half
slave
and half
free
.
1963
12th of Never
xxv.
You had to have your own approval …A house divided cannot stand.
quarrelsomeness
;
unity and division
MATTHEW
xii. 25 (AV) Every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.
a1050
Liber Scintillarum
(EETS) 133
Drihten segth .. ælc ceaster oththe hus todæled ongean hit sylf, hit na stynt.
c
1704
in
Journal in Works
(1751) 42
My Mother would often say,
A House divided could not stand
.
1858
Speech
16 June in
Works
(1953) II. 461
‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half
slave
and half
free
.
1963
12th of Never
xxv.
You had to have your own approval …A house divided cannot stand.
quarrelsomeness;
unity and division
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