Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDENOrder is the greatest grace.
More John Dryden Quotes
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Merit challenges envy.
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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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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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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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