If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
JOHN DRYDENParting is worse than death; it is death of love!
More John Dryden Quotes
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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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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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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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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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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