If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
JOHN DRYDENTo die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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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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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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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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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Merit challenges envy.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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