"Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason,……" — Aphra Behn
"Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude."
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28 Quotes by Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn has 28 quotes on this site.
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.
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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good…
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
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There is no sinner like a young saint.
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Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
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Come away; poverty's catching.
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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
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Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.
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Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.
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'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh…
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One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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