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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
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Olde
Comely
Bees
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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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A new broome sweepeth cleane.
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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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If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
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Nothing so perilous as procrastination
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Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
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Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.
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The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
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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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In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.
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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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