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15 Quotes for 'John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)' in the Database.
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John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie) Quotes
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Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Euphues (p. 39), (1759 edition)
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As busie as a Bee.
Topic: Bees
Source: Euphues and his England (p. 252)
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Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
Topic: Comparisons
Source: Euphues (p. 215)
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A cleere conscience is a sure carde.
Topic: Conscience
Source: Euphues (p. 207), Arbor's reprint
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be
looking.
Topic: Conscience
Source: Euphues (p. 207), Arbor's reprint
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I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.
Topic: Eating
Source: Euphues and his England (p. 308)
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There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
Topic: Fire
Source: Euphes and his Emphoebus (p. 153), (Arber's Reprint)
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The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
Topic: Kindness
Source: Mother Bombie (act III, sc. 1)
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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.
Topic: Larks
Source: Alexander and Campaspe (act V, sc. 1)
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What bird so sings, yet does so wail?
O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale--
Jug, jug, jug, jug--tereu, she cries,
And still her woes at midnight rise.
Topic: Nightingales
Source: The Songs of Birds
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The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes
overthrow the tallest Oke.
Topic: Perseverance
Source: Euphues (p. 81), (Arber's 1579 reprint)
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You are in some brown study.
Topic: Study
Source: Euphues (p. 80), (Arber's reprint)(1579)
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Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
Topic: Sun
Source: Euphues
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The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.
Topic: Sun
Source: Euphues (p. 43)
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue
and lytterature.
- John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie),
Topic: Teaching
Source: Euphues--The Anatomy of Wit--Of the Education of Youth
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