For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDENAll flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Go 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.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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