What passion cannot music raise and quell!
JOHN DRYDENAll, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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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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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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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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