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.
Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern. - Aphra Behn
Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.
- Aphra Behn
Variety is the soul of pleasure. - Aphra Behn
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity. - Aphra Behn
Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. - Aphra Behn
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
Kings that made laws, first broke 'em. - Aphra Behn
Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.
Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit? - Aphra Behn
Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?
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 y… - Aphra Behn
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 y…
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. - Aphra Behn
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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 sh… - Aphra Behn
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 sh…
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