Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
JOHN DRYDENMore liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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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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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Love is love’s reward.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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