Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDENAs one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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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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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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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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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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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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