Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDENThey first condemn that first advised the ill.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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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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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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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 when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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