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One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

William Congreve

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

William Congreve

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

William Congreve

If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.

William Congreve

Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.

William Congreve

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.

William Congreve

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish, discovers the folly of the chase.

William Congreve

To refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.

William Congreve

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Friendship Quote

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

- Muhammad Ali

Friend Quote

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

- Brandi Snyder

Marriage Quote

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

- Marilyn Monroe

Love Quote

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

- Elbert Hubbard

Wisdom Quote

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

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