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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
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Kent
England
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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
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There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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Nothing so perilous as procrastination
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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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Though women have small force to overcome men by reason yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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