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John Suckling

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Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.
- John Suckling
Collection: Food
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Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.
- John Suckling
Collection: Paint
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Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!
- John Suckling
Collection: Guilt
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Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.
- John Suckling
Collection: Hope
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Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.
- John Suckling
Collection: Opportunity
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Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities.
- John Suckling
Collection: Grace
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'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.
- John Suckling
Collection: Blessing
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Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.
- John Suckling
Collection: Happiness
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A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.
- John Suckling
Collection: Mediocrity
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I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?
- John Suckling
Collection: Love
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Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.
- John Suckling
Collection: Sorrow
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A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: . . . . She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass.
- John Suckling
Collection: Eye
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But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.
- John Suckling
Collection: Men
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Tis love in love that makes the sport.
- John Suckling
Collection: Sports
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Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.
- John Suckling
Collection: Weather

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