But love’s a malady without a cure.
JOHN DRYDENPity melts the mind to love.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The winds are out of breath.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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