So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
JOHN DRYDENMen’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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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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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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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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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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