Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
JOHN DRYDENBeware of the fury of the patient man.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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The winds are out of breath.
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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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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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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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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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