Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDENHe is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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