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• Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.

  John Wilmot

  Love, Jealous, Heart

  John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2006). “The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester”, p.57, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.

  John Wilmot

  Lows, Saviour, Lifts

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• Custom does often reason overrule.

  John Wilmot

  Doe, Reason, Customs

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• 'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence. . . .

  John Wilmot

  Jealous, Fate, Thinking

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• The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

  John Wilmot

  Marriage, Wife, Life Is

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• Born to myself, I like myself alone.

  John Wilmot

  Self, Born

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• Dead we become the lumber of the world.

  John Wilmot

  World, Rochester, Lumber

  John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2006). “The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

  John Wilmot

  Philosophy, Book, Swim

  John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2006). “The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester”, p.65, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.

  John Wilmot

  Grateful, Heart, Wine

  Letter to the diplomat Henry Savile, 1674.

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• For all Men would be Cowards if they durst:
  And Honesty's against all common Sense.

  John Wilmot

  Honesty, Men, Common Sense

  'A Satire Against Mankind' (1679) l. 158

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• Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

  John Wilmot

  Vices, Want, Suits

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.110, Taylor & Francis

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• Late children are early orphans.

  John Wilmot

  Children, Orphan, Late

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• All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,
  From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

  John Wilmot

  Hate, Thrones, France

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.74, Taylor & Francis

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