Virtue is her own reward.
JOHN DRYDENIf you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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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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All heiresses are beautiful.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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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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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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