Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
JOHN DRYDENAll heiresses are beautiful.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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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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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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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Merit challenges envy.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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