Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
JOHN DRYDENPains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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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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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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