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John Gay Quotes
John Gay Quotes
John Gay
English
Poet
Born:
Jun 30
,
1685
Died:
Dec 4
,
1732
Brave
Delight
Love
Mercy
Must
Wife
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Shadow owes its birth to light.
John Gay
Light
Owes
Birth
Shadow
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
John Gay
Love
Will
Follow
Thee
Flee
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
John Gay
Love
Mercy
Cowards
Delight
Cruel
Brave
Save
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
John Gay
Worse
Foe
Pretended
Open
Prove
Friend
May
Curse
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
John Gay
Me
Remember
Tell
Involve
Understand
Forget
Show
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
John Gay
Must
Retreat
Die
Conquer
What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.
John Gay
Love
Woman
Fly
Fond
Pursue
Leave
Won
Them
Then
Us
Grow
Shun
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
John Gay
You
World
Gentleman
Rich
Nowadays
Hath
Contempt
Dear
Fit
Rogue
Any
Company
Imagine
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
John Gay
Rest
Kiss
Sweet
Pressed
He
Till
His
Closely
Granted
I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
John Gay
Women
Mind
Nothing
Must
Like
Them
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
John Gay
Hope
Marriage
Wife
Spirits
Only
Comfortable
Up
Estate
Keeps
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