For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDENBe slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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