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Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

John Lyly

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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Writer
Kent
England
John Lilly
John Lylie
John Lyly
Matrimony
Marriage
Heaven
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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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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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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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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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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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A new broome sweepeth cleane.
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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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A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
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