What passion cannot music raise and quell!
JOHN DRYDENOld as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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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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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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By education most have been misled.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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