The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDENSculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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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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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
JOHN DRYDEN






