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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.

John Lyly

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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Writer
Kent
England
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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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The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
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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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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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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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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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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
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Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
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Lette me stande to the maine chance.
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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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A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
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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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To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
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If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
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