As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDENOld age creeps on us where we think it night.
More John Dryden Quotes
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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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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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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