The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDENSatire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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