Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDENThose who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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