Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
JOHN DRYDENWe can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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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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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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