There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
JOHN DRYDENOld as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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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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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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