If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
JOHN DRYDENFor your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Love is love’s reward.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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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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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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