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He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
John Lyly
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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
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Kent
England
John Lilly
John Lylie
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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
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Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
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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 give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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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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I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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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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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
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Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
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Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish
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The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
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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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