Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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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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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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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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Love is love’s reward.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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