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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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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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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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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 bargain is a bargain.
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Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.
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I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love which is lawless.
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The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
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When adversities flow, then love ebbs but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
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The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
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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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[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 finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
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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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The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
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A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
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The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
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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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Nothing so perilous as procrastination
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Lette me stande to the maine chance.
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