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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
John Lilly
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Maine
Chance

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A new broome sweepeth cleane.
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As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
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As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish
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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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Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.
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The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
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Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.
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The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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