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Though women have small force to overcome men by reason yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
John Lyly
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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
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Kent
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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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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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The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
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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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None but the lark so shrill and clear Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.
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A new broome sweepeth cleane.
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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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A bargain is a bargain.
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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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To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
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I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love which is lawless.
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Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
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Nothing so perilous as procrastination
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
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In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
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