Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDENDancing is the poetry of the foot.
More John Dryden Quotes
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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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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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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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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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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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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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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