Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
JOHN DRYDEN






