Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDENMighty things from small beginnings grow.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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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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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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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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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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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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