John Lyly Quotes

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• Nothing so perilous as procrastination
• The night has a thousand eyes.
• As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
• I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.
• I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
• Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
• It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.
• The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
• He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
• Children and fools speak true.
• A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
• The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
• It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
• Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
• The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
• Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
• The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
• Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
• In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
• To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

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