Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
JOHN DRYDENPains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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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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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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