Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

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Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

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He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

William Congreve in Love for Love (1695)
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

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Music has charms to soothe the savage breast to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve in The Mourning Bride
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