William Lilly famous quotes

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Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.
-- William Lilly

#Ambition #Two #Blood
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
-- William Lilly

#Ambition #Heaven #Fingers
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.
-- William Lilly

#Mistress #Affection #Masters
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 Lilly

#Years #Majesty #Quiet
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.
-- William Lilly

#Stars #Believe #Divine
Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.
-- William Lilly

#Talking #Years #Age
In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.
-- William Lilly

#Mother #Years #Age
In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.
-- William Lilly

#Years #House #Pounds
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 Lilly

#People #House #Judgment

It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.
Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.
Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
Anyone who meets you and doesn't want to get to know you and be part of your life is stupid. I saw it when I was just a kid." "No. You thought I was a vampire and you wanted to be my friend so I wouldn't eat you." "Well, that too. But I found out soon enough you weren't a blood sucker and I still licked you.
In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.
In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch-the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs-was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.
The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.

William Lilly famous quotes

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