Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
JOHN DRYDENPity melts the mind to love.
More John Dryden Quotes
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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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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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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