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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
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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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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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Though women have small force to overcome men by reason yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
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There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
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A new broome sweepeth cleane.
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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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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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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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Lette me stande to the maine chance.
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