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A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.

As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.

Come away; poverty's catching.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.

Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.

Jealousy, the old worm that bites.

Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.

Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.

Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.

'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh how I strove the rest to have believed; Ashamed and angry to be undeceived!

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.

You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.

And did with sighs their fate deplore, Since I must shelter them no more; And if before my joys were such, In having heard, and seen too much, My grief must be as great and high, When all abandoned I shall be, Doomed to a silent destiny.

Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

I value not the censures of the crowd.

Nothing shows the wit so poor, as wonder, nor birth so mean, as pride.

Punishments hereafter are suffer'd by one's self; and the World takes no Cognizance whether this God has reveng'd 'em or not, 'tis done so secretly, and deferr'd so long.

The only shame is the sin.