Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
More John Dryden Quotes
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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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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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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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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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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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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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
JOHN DRYDEN