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«We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors»
Author: Malcolm de Chazal | Keywords: importunate, suitor, suitors
«Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.»
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial (Poet) | Keywords: coyness, extravagant, rarity, suitor, suitors
«The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.»
Author: Marguerite De Valois | About: Honor, Love | Keywords: cut short, Short Cuts, suitor, suitors, the matter
«I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: amity, hazarding, jolly, modestly, predisposition, refusal, suitor, suitors
«Bring hither by thy shouts, O lord of wealth, the suitor, bend his mind towards her; turn thou the right side of every agreeable suitor towards (her)!»
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: bend, suitor, suitors
«REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by a priest, and so forth. Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: absolution, alderman, franchise, graded, impenitent, maiden, refusal, Refusals, suitor, suitors, tentative
«Death is the supple Suitor That wins at last It is a stealthy Wooing Conducted first By pallid innuendoes And dim approach But brave at last with Bugles»
Author: Emily Dickinson (Poet) | Keywords: bugle, Bugles, conducted, dim, innuendo, innuendoes, pallid, stealthy, suitor, suitors, supple, wooing
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