John Lyly Quotes

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• Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

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  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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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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  Friendship, Destiny, Wrinkles

  John Lyly (1894). “Endymion the Man in the Moon: Played Before the Queen's Majesty at Greenwich on Candlemas Day, at Night, by the Children of Paul's”

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• The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Life Is

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• It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

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  Ignorance, Bird, Foxes

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.242, Manchester University Press

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• When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

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  Loyalty, Adversity, Storm

  John Lyly, David Bevington (1997). “Endymion”, p.137, Manchester University Press

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• The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

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  Envy, Envious, Harm

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.120, Manchester University Press

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• The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

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  Ignorance, Empty Vessels, Sound

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.42, Manchester University Press

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• Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

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  Heart, Past, Mind

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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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  Horse, Eye, Men

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work”, p.65, Psychology Press

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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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  Sweet, Bait, Poison

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.49, Manchester University Press

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• Children and fooles speake true.

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  Children, Truth

  John Lyly, Frederick William Fairholt, Lillie Lyly (1858). “The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (the Euphuist.): John Lilly and his works. Endimion. Campaspe. Sapho and Phao. Gallathea. Notes”, p.55

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• The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

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  Sun, Corruption

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.41, Manchester University Press

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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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  Hate, Wine, Vinegar

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• Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?

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  Moving, Heart, Thinking

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• Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

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  Friendship, Friends, Fall

  John Lyly (1916). “Euphues”

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• It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.

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  Horse, Hands, Walking

  John Lyly, Frederick William Fairholt, Lillie Lyly (1858). “The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (the Euphuist.): John Lilly and his works. Endimion. Campaspe. Sapho and Phao. Gallathea. Notes”, p.53

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• Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.

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  Teaching, Young

  John Lyly (1868). “Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Editio princeps, 1579. Euphues and his England. Editio princeps, 1580. Collated with early subsequent editions ... Carefully edited by Edward Arber”, p.131

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• I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.

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  Understanding

  John Lyly (1975). “Mother Bombie”

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• Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

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  Book, Purses, Study

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.146, Manchester University Press

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• Nothing so perilous as procrastination

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  Procrastination

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.58, Manchester University Press

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• Love knoweth no laws.

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  Love, Law

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.79, Manchester University Press

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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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  Wine, Taste, Enjoy

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.294, Manchester University Press

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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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  Father, Son, Past

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.33, Manchester University Press

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• It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

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  Ideas, Disposition, Altered

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• The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

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  Tails, Mouths, Honey

  John Lyly, George K. Hunter, David Bevington (1991). “Campaspe and Sappho and Phao: John Lyly”, p.285, Manchester University Press

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