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Lette me stande to the maine chance.

John Lyly

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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Writer
Kent
England
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
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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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Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
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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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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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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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Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.
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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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The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
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I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
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He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
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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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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
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Though women have small force to overcome men by reason yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
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