For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDENHim of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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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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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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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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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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