Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDENAll authors to their own defects are blind.
More John Dryden Quotes
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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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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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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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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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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