Politicians neither love nor hate.
JOHN DRYDENKeen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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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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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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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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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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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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