No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDENOld age creeps on us where we think it night.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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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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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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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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