Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
JOHN DRYDENSure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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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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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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