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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

John Lyly

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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Writer
Kent
England
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Bees

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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
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Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
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The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.
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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
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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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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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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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When adversities flow, then love ebbs but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
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