Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDENPity melts the mind to love.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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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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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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