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John Lyly
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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
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Kent
England
John Lilly
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It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.
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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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In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
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When adversities flow, then love ebbs but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
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Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
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Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
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The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
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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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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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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
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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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Lette me stande to the maine chance.
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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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[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
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