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John Lyly

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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Collection: Marriage
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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
- John Lyly
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A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
- John Lyly
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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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A clear conscience is a sure card.
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He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
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As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
- John Lyly
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
- John Lyly
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The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
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Night hath a thousand eyes.
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We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.
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The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
- John Lyly
Collection: Ignorance
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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.
- John Lyly
Collection: Sweet
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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
- John Lyly
Collection: Friendship
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The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
- John Lyly
Collection: Tails
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When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
- John Lyly
Collection: Loyalty
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The night has a thousand eyes.
- John Lyly
Collection: Eye
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It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
- John Lyly
Collection: Ignorance
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Nothing so perilous as procrastination
- John Lyly
Collection: Procrastination
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Fish and guests in three days are stale.
- John Lyly
Collection: Three
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Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
- John Lyly
Collection: Friendship
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It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.
- John Lyly
Collection: Ideas
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The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
- John Lyly
Collection: Inward
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The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
- John Lyly
Collection: Broken
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All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.
- John Lyly
Collection: Men
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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
- John Lyly
Collection: Heart
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To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
- John Lyly
Collection: Wine
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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.
- John Lyly
Collection: Sweet
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To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
- John Lyly
Collection: Incidents
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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
- John Lyly
Collection: Young
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The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.
- John Lyly
Collection: Rain
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Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
- John Lyly
Collection: Heart
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As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
- John Lyly
Collection: Hate
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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.
- John Lyly
Collection: Law
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Children and fools speak true.
- John Lyly
Collection: Children
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Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.
- John Lyly
Collection: Beauty
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There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
- John Lyly
Collection: Fire
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Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
- John Lyly
Collection: Bees
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Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.
- John Lyly
Collection: Fortunate
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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
- John Lyly
Collection: Roots
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Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.
- John Lyly
Collection: Color
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In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
- John Lyly
Collection: Anger
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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
- John Lyly
Collection: Moving
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It is a world to see.
- John Lyly
Collection: World
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Lette me stande to the maine chance.
- John Lyly
Collection: Maine
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All fish are not caught with flies
- John Lyly
Collection: Fishing
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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
- John Lyly
Collection: Men
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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.
- John Lyly
Collection: Art
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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.
- John Lyly
Collection: Would Be
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Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
- John Lyly
Collection: Blessing

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