All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
JOHN DRYDENPity melts the mind to love.
More John Dryden Quotes
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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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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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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