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A new broome sweepeth cleane.

John Lyly

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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Writer
Kent
England
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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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Lette me stande to the maine chance.
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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
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When adversities flow, then love ebbs but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
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To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
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Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
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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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To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
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The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
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The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
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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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A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.
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The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
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If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
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A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
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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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