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Fair words cost nothing.
Envy is a kind of praise.
We only part to meet again.
Shadow owes its birth to light.
Envy's a sharper spur than pay.
In love we are all fools alike.
No author ever spar'd a brother.
Can love be controll'd by advice?
Who talks much, must talk in vain.
Exercise thy lasting youth defends.
To friendship every burden's light.
Thus shadow owes its birth to light.
Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.
Praising all alike, is praising none.
What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes
A woman's friendship ever ends in love.
Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.
To shoot at crows is powder flung away.
She who has never loved has never lived.
She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd.
The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
Breathe soft, ye winds! ye waves, in silence sleep!
Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.
On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much
If with me you'd fondly stray Over the hills and far away.
Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.
You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.
In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
How, like a moth, the simple maid Still plays around the flame!
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!
The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.
One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.
And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.
In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow.
When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.
Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.
Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.