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The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
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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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 true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
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The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
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I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
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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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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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Lette me stande to the maine chance.
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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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In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
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Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
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Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
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He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
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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 comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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A new broome sweepeth cleane.
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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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