William Lilly Quotes
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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
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After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.
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After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling…
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I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.
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Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.
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In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.
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In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.
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If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary…
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