"Nothing but you can lay hold of my……" — William Congreve
"Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you."
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William Congreve
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40 Quotes by William Congreve
William Congreve has 40 quotes on this site.
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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to…
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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets…
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
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A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any…
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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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More Hold Quotes
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and…
— Margaret Atwood
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
— Saint Augustine
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
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I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to…
— Lauren Bacall
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not…
— Edward Bach
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you…
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will…
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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has…
— Ansel Adams
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