Love is love’s reward.
JOHN DRYDENThe love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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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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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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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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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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