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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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To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
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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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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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In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
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The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
John Lyly
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
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As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
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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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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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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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It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.
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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
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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 bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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A bargain is a bargain.
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To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
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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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