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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
The Old Bachelor (1693)
If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see
That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.
The Way of the World (1700)
Each deceiver to his cost may find
That marriage frauds too oft are paid in kind.
The Way of the World (1700)
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
The Double Dealer (1694)
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise,
Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.
I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
The Way of the World (1700)
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
Love for Love (1695)
If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see
The heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
And black despair succeeds brown study.
Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.
Love for Love (1695)
I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
Careless she is with artful care,
Affecting to seem unaffected.
Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.
The Old Bachelor (1693)
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
The Mourning Bride (1697)
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
The Old Bachelor (1693)
Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast,
To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
The Mourning Bride (1697)
Thou liar of the first magnitude.
Love for Love (1695)
O, she is the antidote to desire.
The Way of the World (1700)
He that can't live upon love deserves to die in a ditch.
By magic numbers and persuasive sound.