A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve in The Mourning Bride (1697)
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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

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For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

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There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

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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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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

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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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