If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
JOHN DRYDENTime glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
JOHN DRYDEN