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Of London coffeehouses in the late 1600s:
You have all Manner of News there: You have a good Fire, which you may sit by as long as you please: You have a Dish of Coffee; you meet your Friends for the Transaction of Business, and all for a Penny, if you don't care to spend more.
Maximilien Misson
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Like an ambassador that beds a queen
With the nice caution of a sword between.
John Cleveland
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Julio, in those libraries of death
study the bodies of those bones—an assured evil;
and learn from those characters
that they form the abecedary of death!
Hernando Domínguez Camargo
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Our most provident and glorious Creator so furnished countries with several commodities that amongst all there might be sociable conversation; and, one standing in need of the other, all might be combined in a common league, and exhibit mutual succors. This abundance of all countries in everything, and defect of every country in most things, maintaineth in all regions and every province a most strict combination. So that, as in the body of the little world, the head cannot say to the foot, nor the foot to the head, 'I stand in no need of thee:' so, in the body of the great world, Europe cannot say to Asia, nor Asia to Africa, 'I want not your commodities, nor am defective in that of which thou boastest of abundance.'
Peter Heylin
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All trades did shew their skill in this, Each wise an Engineer: The Mairess took the tool in hand, The maids the stones did bear.
Alexander Brome
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Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're insipid, empty, uncorrect.And many, have attained, dull and untaught,The name of wit, only by finding fault.True judges, might condemn their want of wit,And all might say, they're by a woman writ.
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
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And an ingenious Spaniard says, that "rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate and fools to pass by without consideration."
Charles Cotton
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To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards...
Dorothy Osborne
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From marrying in haste, and repenting at leisure;
Not liking the person, yet liking his treasure:
Libera nos.
Elizabeth Thomas
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Then we shall rise
And view ourselves with clearer eyes
In that calm region where no night
Can hide us from each other's sight.
Henry King
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The picture, placed the busts between,
Adds to the thought much strength:
Wisdom and Wit are little seen,
But Folly's at full length.
Jane Brereton
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Oh, the gallant fisher's life,
It is the best of any
'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,
And 'tis beloved of many.
John Chalkhill
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One reproaches a lover, but can one reproach a husband, when his only fault is that he no longer loves?
Madame de La Fayette
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Foolish eyes, thy streams give over,
Wine, not water, binds the lover:
At the table then be shining,
Gay coquette, and all designing.
Martha Sansom
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What is it our mammas bewitches
To plague us little boys with breeches?
Mary Barber
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Though we all day with care our work attend,
Such is our fate, we know not when 'twill end.
When evening's come, you homeward take your way;
We, till our work is done, are forced to stay.
Mary Collier
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How sweet is harmless solitude!
What can its joys control?
Tumults and noise may not intrude,
To interrupt the soul.
Mary Mollineux
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'Tis hard we should be by the men despised,
Yet kept from knowing what would make us prized;
Debarred from knowledge, banished from the schools,
And with the utmost industry bred fools.
Lady Mary Chudleigh
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By the power of eloquence old truth receives a new habit; though its essence be the same, yet its visage is so altered that it may currently pass and be accepted as a novelty.
Michael Wigglesworth
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It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
Ninon de Lenclos
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Whoever has but a moment to live has nothing more to hide.
Philippe Quinault
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God's image man doth bear
Without it he is but a human shape,
Worse than the Devil.
Rachel Speght
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Still-born Silence! thou that art
Floodgate of the deeper heart.
Richard Flecknoe
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A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it...
Susannah Centlivre
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I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.
William Chillingworth
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