In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
—John Lyly
Topics: Belief, Truth
Our only security is our ability to change.
—John Lyly
Topics: Change
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turned to the deadliest hate.
—John Lyly
Topics: Wine
The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war.
—John Lyly
How rare a thing it is to match virginity with beauty.
—John Lyly
Though all men be made of one metal, yet they be not cast in one mold.
—John Lyly
What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended.
—John Lyly
Topics: Optimism, Positive Attitudes
Love knoweth no law.
—John Lyly
He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
—John Lyly
Topics: Honesty
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.
—John Lyly
Topics: Marriage
The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
—John Lyly
Topics: Corruption
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
—John Lyly
Topics: Honesty
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
—John Lyly
Topics: Shame
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
—John Lyly
Topics: One Step at a Time, Perseverance, Persistence
You see what love is, begun with griefe, continued with sorrow, ended with death. A paine full of pleasure, a joye replenished with misery, a Heaven, a Hell, a God, a Divell, and what not, that either hath in it solace or sorrowe?
—John Lyly
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