Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
JOHN DRYDENBy education most have been misled.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN






