Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDENHappy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
More John Dryden Quotes
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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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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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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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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They think too little who talk too much.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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