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William Congreve Quotes

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Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand’ring sense, and calm the troubled mind  (William Congreve Quotes) Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of ‘em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.  (William Congreve Quotes) Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight  (William Congreve Quotes) No, I’m no enemy to learning; it hurts not me  (William Congreve Quotes) There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... ‘tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!  (William Congreve Quotes) Love’s but the frailty of the mind, When ‘tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.  (William Congreve Quotes) Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond  (William Congreve Quotes) A little scorn is alluring  (William Congreve Quotes) Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand  (William Congreve Quotes) A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring  (William Congreve Quotes) If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable  (William Congreve Quotes) What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals?  (William Congreve Quotes) It is, alas! The poor prerogative of greatness, to be wretched and unpitied  (William Congreve Quotes) Hushed as the falling dews, whose noiseless showers impearl the folded leaves of evening flowers  (William Congreve Quotes) 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an university. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman  (William Congreve Quotes) For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds  (William Congreve Quotes) Beauty is the lover's gift  (William Congreve Quotes) Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure  (William Congreve Quotes) Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study  (William Congreve Quotes) Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing  (William Congreve Quotes) He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure  (William Congreve Quotes) One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ  (William Congreve Quotes) Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard  (William Congreve Quotes) Read, read, sirrah, and refine your appetite; learn to live upon instruction; frost your mind and mortify your flesh  (William Congreve Quotes) A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty  (William Congreve Quotes) Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned  (William Congreve Quotes) Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak  (William Congreve Quotes) There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire  (William Congreve Quotes) 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!  (William Congreve Quotes) He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views  (William Congreve Quotes)
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