Source: The Poems of Sir John Suckling
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Source: The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling
“A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.”
Source: The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays
“Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities.”
Source: The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling
“If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make.”
Source: The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling
“Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.”
Source: Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling
“But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.”
Source: The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays
“Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.”
Source: The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling
“Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.”
Source: Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling
Source: The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling
“Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.”
“She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.”
Source: The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays
“Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.”
Source: The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling