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William Congreve Quotes
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One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.
Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish, discovers the folly of the chase.
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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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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Never have a companion who casts you in the shade.
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Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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It always seems impossible until it's done.
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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
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