"Thou strange piece of wild nature!" — Colley Cibber
"Thou strange piece of wild nature!"
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Colley Cibber
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19 Quotes by Colley Cibber
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Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
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We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a…
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Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.
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The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
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Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I…
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A weak invention of the Enemy.
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Possession is eleven points in the law.
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Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
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Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.
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Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight?…
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Losers must have leave to speak.
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I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me,…
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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Nature does nothing in vain.
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to…
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the…
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