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A new broome sweepeth cleane.

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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Writer
Kent
England
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The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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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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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
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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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Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
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He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
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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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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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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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Nothing so perilous as procrastination
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When adversities flow, then love ebbs but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
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Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
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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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