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  • Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

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    Happiness   Joy   Firsts  
    Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.150

  • Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.

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    Pain   Heart   Love Is  
    1646 'Love's Offence'.

  • But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.

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    Dance   Easter   Sight  
    Sir John Suckling (1766). “The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays”, p.37

  • Why so pale and wan, fond lover, Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?

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    Life   Moving   Lovers  
    'Aglaura' (1637) act 4, sc. 1, song

  • Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

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    Guilt   Shadow   Evening  

  • But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.

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    Men   Wind   Watches  
    Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.66

  • A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

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    Mediocrity   Quiet   Stills  
    Sir John Suckling (1766). “The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays”, p.128

  • Tis love in love that makes the sport.

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    Sports  
    c.1638 Sonnet no.2.

  • 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

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    Blessing   Expectations   Anticipation  
    1646 'Against Fruition'.

  • She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.

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    Relationship   Witty   Thinking  
    Sir John Suckling (1766). “The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays”, p.373

  • Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities.

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    Grace   Deities   Arise  
    Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.96

  • Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

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    Sorrow   Weaving   Spinning  

  • If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make.

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    Beauty   Blue   Black  
    Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.17

  • 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?

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    Love   Broken Heart   Heartbreak  
    Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.65

  • 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.

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    Eye   Night   Glasses  

  • Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

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    Opportunity   Degrees   Heat  
    Sir John Suckling (1836). “Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling”, p.274, London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman

  • Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.

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    Weather   Together   Three  
    'A Poem with the Answer'

  • Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.

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    Food   Delight   Meat  
    c.1638 Sonnet no.2.

  • Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.

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    Paint   Ugliness  
    Sir John Suckling (1836). “Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling”, p.263, London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman

  • Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

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    Hope   Blessing   Expectations  
    Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.22
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John Suckling

  • Born: February 10, 1609
  • Died: June 1, 1642
  • Occupation: Poet
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