Pity melts the mind to love.
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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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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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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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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