Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
JOHN DRYDENHere lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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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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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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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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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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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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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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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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