What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
JOHN DRYDENGo miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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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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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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