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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.

John Lyly

Lightning, Moments, Ends

John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.55, Manchester University Press

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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

John Lyly

Roots, Tree, Crooked

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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There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

John Lyly

Fire, Arise, Smoke

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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Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.

John Lyly

Bees

"Euphues". Book by John Lyly (p.39), 1578.

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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

Law, Mind, Deceit

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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.

John Lyly

Feet, Wagons, Companion

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Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.

John Lyly

Color, Needs, Countenance

John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.29, Manchester University Press

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Children and fools speak true.

John Lyly

Children, Honesty, Fool

John Lyly, David Bevington (1997). “Endymion”, p.152, Manchester University Press

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Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.

John Lyly

Fortunate

"Euphues". Book by John Lyly (p. 279), 1578.

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Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles.

John Lyly

Morning, Flower, Book

"John Lyly, 'Euphues, To the Gentlemen Readers'". Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations V2: Drawn From The Speech And Literature Of All Nations, Ancient And Modern (1922), Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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Cupid and my Campaspe play'd
At cards for kisses - Cupid paid:
He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows,
His mother's doves, and team of sparrows;
Loses them too; then down he throws
The coral of his lips, the rose
Growing one's cheek (but none knows how);
With these, the crystal of his brow,
And then the dimple of his chin:
All these did my Campaspe win.
At last he set her both his eyes -
She won, and Cupid blind did rise.
O Love! has she done this for thee?
What shall, alas! become of me?

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Love, Mother, Team

John Lyly, “Cards And Kisses”

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

John Lyly

Moving, Heart, Thinking

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It is a world to see.

John Lyly

World

John Lyly (1916). “Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit”, p.204, Рипол Классик

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

John Lyly

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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All fish are not caught with flies

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Fishing, Caught, Fishes

John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.261, Manchester University Press

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Lette me stande to the maine chance.

John Lyly

Maine, Chance

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

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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

John Lyly

Men, Bees

John Lyly (1868). “Eupheus, the Anatomy of Wit; Eupheus and His England”, p.252

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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

Art, Lying, Learning

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Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.

John Lyly

Long, Alcohol

John Lyly (1868). “Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit. Editio Princeps. 1579. Euphues and His England. Editio Princeps. 1580. Collated with Early Subsequent Editions”, p.229

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Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.

John Lyly

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.108

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As lyke as one pease is to another.

John Lyly

John Lyly (1868). “Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit. Editio Princeps. 1579. Euphues and His England. Editio Princeps. 1580. Collated with Early Subsequent Editions”, p.215

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A clere conscience is a sure carde.

John Lyly

Conscience

"Euphues". Book by John Lyly, p. 207, 1578.

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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

Would Be, Fool, Print

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An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.

John Lyly

Suffering, Quality, Three

"Euphues and his England". Book by John Lyly, 1579.

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If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

John Lyly

Giving, Waste, Poverty

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