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• As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.

  John Lyly

  Hate, Wine, Vinegar

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• Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

  John Lyly

  Heart, Wine, Men

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.115, Manchester University Press

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

  John Lyly

  Understanding

  John Lyly (1975). “Mother Bombie”

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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.

  John Lyly

  Horse, Eye, Men

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

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• The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

  John Lyly

  Blunt, Finest, Made

  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.47

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• He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

  John Lyly

  Honesty, Loses

  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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• As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions

  John Lyly

  Law, Conditions

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.72, Manchester University Press

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

  John Lyly

  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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• Love knoweth no laws.

  John Lyly

  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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• Children and fooles speake true.

  John Lyly

  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 measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

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  Mean, Love Is, Ends

  John Lyly (1964). “Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Euphues & His England”

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

  John Lyly

  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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• In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

  John Lyly

  Anger, Shadow, Substance

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work”, p.20, Psychology Press

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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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  Wings, Heaven, Larks

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work”, p.117, Psychology Press

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• Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

  John Lyly

  Time, Strokes, Oaks

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work”, p.44, Psychology Press

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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.

  John Lyly

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  'If all the earth were paper white' in R. Warwick Bond (ed.) 'The Complete Works' (1902) vol. 3, p. 452

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• The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

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  Sloth, Done, Laziness

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• Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

  John Lyly

  Sound, Instruments, Sweetest

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• If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

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  Love Is, Lovers, Should

  1588 Gallathea, act 3, sc.1.

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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.

  John Lyly

  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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• 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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• A new broome sweepeth cleane.

  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.89

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• Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.

  John Lyly

  Doors, Mouths, Lips

  John Lyly (1969). “Gallathea and Midas”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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

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  Bees

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

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