"Thus shadow owes its birth to light" — John Gay
"Thus shadow owes its birth to light"
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John Gay
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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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But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the…
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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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More Birth Quotes
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one of 2,462 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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