Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
JOHN DRYDENYouth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
More John Dryden Quotes
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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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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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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