For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDENHere lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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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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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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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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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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