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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
John Lilly
John Lylie
John Lyly
Olde
Comely
Bees
Men

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In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
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Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
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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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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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Nothing so perilous as procrastination
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A bargain is a bargain.
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The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
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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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Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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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 love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
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If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
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When adversities flow, then love ebbs but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
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The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
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