Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDENFor your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
More John Dryden Quotes
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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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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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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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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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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