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A fellow who lives in a windmill has not a more whimsical dwelling than the heart of a man that is lodged in a woman. - [Courtship] Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. - [Reward] Born to excel, and to command! As by transcendent beauty to attract All eyes, so by pre-eminence of soul To rule all hearts. - [Excellence] Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. - [Courtship] Critics to plays for the same end resort That surgeons wait on trials in a court; For innocence condemn'd they've no respect, Provided they've a body to dissect. - [Critics] Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise. - [Proverbs] Grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure. - [Grief] Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it. - [Guilt] He that can't live upon love deserves to die in a ditch. - [Love] He that loses hope may part with anything. - [Hope] He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. - [Narrow-mindedness] Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. - [Women] Hushed as the falling dews, whose noiseless showers impearl the folded leaves of evening flowers. - [Dew] I am tipsy with laughing. - [Laughter] I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words! - [Loquacity] I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere. - [Secrecy] I like her with all her faults: nay, like her for her faults. Her follies are so natural, or so artful, that they become her; and those affections which in another woman would be odious serve but to make her more agreeable. - [Faults] I'll give you revenge another time, when you are not so indifferent; you are thinking of something else now, and play too negligently; the coldness of a losing gamester lessens the pleasure of the winner. I'd no more play with a man that slighted his ill fortune, than I'd make love to a woman who undervalued the loss of their reputation. - [Gambling] It is, alas! the poor prerogative of greatness, to be wretched and unpitied. - [Greatness] Married in haste we may repent at leisure. - [Proverbs] Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - [Music] O call not to my mind what you have done! It sets a debt of that account before me, which shows me poor and bankrupt even in hopes! - [Gratitude] Shallow artifice begets suspicion, And like a cobweb veil, but thinly shades The face of thy design, alone disguising What should have ne'er been seen, imperfect mischief. - [Artifice] She is chaste who was never asked the question. - [Chastity] The coldness of a losing gamester lessens the pleasure of the winner. I would no more play with a man that slighted his ill fortune than I would make love to a woman who undervalued the loss of her reputation. - [Gambling] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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