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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
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In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made 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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He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
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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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Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.
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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.
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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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In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
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A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.
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A bargain is a bargain.
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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
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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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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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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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As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
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