Pity melts the mind to love.
JOHN DRYDENTime and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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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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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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By education most have been misled.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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