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John Lyly Inspirational Quotes (54)

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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
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The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
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The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.
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Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
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Though women have small force to overcome men by reason yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
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To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
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If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
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A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.
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A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.
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The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
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When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.
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Lette me stande to the maine chance.
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The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
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He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.
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