Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDENAll heiresses are beautiful.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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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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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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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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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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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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