For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDENDeath ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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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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