John Suckling Quotes
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Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.
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Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.
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I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have…
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Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.
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'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear...
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Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.
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Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.
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Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!
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Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.
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A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis as…
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