Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
JOHN DRYDENLove reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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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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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Love is love’s reward.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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