As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDENFew know the use of life before ’tis past.
More John Dryden Quotes
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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By education most have been misled.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
JOHN DRYDEN