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I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
William Congreve
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William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
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Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.
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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
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No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
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Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.
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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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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.
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I am a fool, I know it and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
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Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
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Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.
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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
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A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
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