"But his kiss was so sweet, and so……" — John Gay
"But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest."
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34 Quotes by John Gay
John Gay has 34 quotes on this site.
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt…
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The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
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I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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Shadow owes its birth to light.
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On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
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We only part to meet again.
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The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender…
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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
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In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If…
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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