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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
John Lyly
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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
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Kent
England
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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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As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
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The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
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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 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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