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These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.

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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Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
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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!
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But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.
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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
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Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.
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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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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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I nauseate walking 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
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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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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
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Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
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One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
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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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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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I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
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