"That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere……" — Aphra Behn
"That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."
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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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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.
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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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More Faithful Quotes
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During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been…
— Michele Bachmann
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It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
— Brigitte Bardot
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He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual…
— Isaac Barrow
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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
— Louisa May Alcott
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Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of…
— Tony Campolo
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Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.
— Elmina Shepard Taylor
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The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole…
— Unknown Author
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The strength of God will enable us, a small but faithful band, to overcome the multitude of the faithless.
— Unknown Author
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Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their…
— William Gurnall
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Faithful continued prayer is one key to answered prayer. As James expresses it, "You do not have, because you do…
— John F Walvoord
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words…
— Unknown Author
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
— Horace
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