Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
JOHN DRYDENOrder is the greatest grace.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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