What passion cannot music raise and quell!
JOHN DRYDENLove reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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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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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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