William Lilly quotes
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“Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.”
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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.”
-- William LillySource : William Lilly (1822). “William Lilly's History of His Life and Times from the Year 1602 to 1681”, p.44
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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 religion as they had formerly promised.”
-- William LillySource : William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.150
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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.”
-- William LillySource : William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.17
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“In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.”
-- William LillySource : William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.21
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“In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.”
-- William LillySource : William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.78
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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 your Rules with Judgment.”
-- William LillySource : William Lilly (2005). “Christian Astrology, Books 1 & 2”, p.465, Astrology Center of America
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“Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.”
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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Source : "Saudi: US Iraq presence illegal". news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2007.
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