Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
JOHN DRYDENSure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
More John Dryden Quotes
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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