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.
JOHN DRYDENNever was patriot yet, but was a fool.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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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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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
JOHN DRYDEN