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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
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Kent
England
John Lilly
John Lylie
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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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Lette me stande to the maine chance.
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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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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 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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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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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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The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
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A new broome sweepeth cleane.
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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
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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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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
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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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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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