And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDENHonor is but an empty bubble.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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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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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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