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John Gay Inspirational Quotes (50)

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Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.
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I cannot raise my worth too high Of what vast consequence am I! Not of the importance you suppose, Replies a Flea upon his nose Be humble, learn thyself to scan Know, pride was never made for man.
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Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise With health all taste of pleasure flies.
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Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.
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The charge is prepared the lawyers are met The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.
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The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
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Learning by study must be won 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.
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Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.
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A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much
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Breathe soft, ye winds! ye waves, in silence sleep!
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Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
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Some folks of cider make a rout And cider's well enough no doubt When better liquors fail But wine, that's richer, better still, Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will) Must yield to nappy ale
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Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
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Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No the dead know it not, nor profit gain It only serves to prove the living vain.
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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
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Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.
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Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.
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Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.
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The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.
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Envy is a kind of praise.
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Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother Wits are gamecocks to one another.
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Fair words cost nothing.
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Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health.
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