Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDENOur vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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The winds are out of breath.
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