For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDENNothing to build, and all things to destroy.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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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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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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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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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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