At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
JOHN DRYDENFew know the use of life before ’tis past.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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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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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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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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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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