But love’s a malady without a cure.
JOHN DRYDENDeath in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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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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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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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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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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