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Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.

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
Water
Smoothest
Deepest

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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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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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[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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He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.
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Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
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In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
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As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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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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The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
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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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