For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDENOur 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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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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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Love is love’s reward.
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