Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDENSilence in times of suffering is the best.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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