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Aphra Behn Quotes
Best Quotes by Aphra Behn (Top 10)
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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
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There is no sinner like a young saint.
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Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
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Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.
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Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
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A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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More Aphra Behn Quotes
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All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.
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Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
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Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
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Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.
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time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...
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As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.
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One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
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Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
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Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.
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