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.
JOHN DRYDENIf you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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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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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: 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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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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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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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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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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The winds are out of breath.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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