All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
JOHN DRYDENThey think too little who talk too much.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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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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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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