They say everything in the world is good for something.
JOHN DRYDENIf thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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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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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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