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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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Chance
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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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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water 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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Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
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I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love which is lawless.
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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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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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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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The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
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