For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDENFowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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