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A new broome sweepeth cleane.
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 greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
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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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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 give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
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In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
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I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
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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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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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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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The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
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A bargain is a bargain.
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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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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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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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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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None but the lark so shrill and clear Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.
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