All heiresses are beautiful.
JOHN DRYDENTake not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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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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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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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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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
JOHN DRYDEN