Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
JOHN DRYDENWe by art unteach what Nature taught.
More John Dryden Quotes
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War is the trade of kings.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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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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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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