Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
JOHN DRYDENDeath ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
More John Dryden Quotes
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By education most have been misled.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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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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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDEN