Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
JOHN DRYDENFor truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Love is love’s reward.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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