For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
JOHN DRYDENOld age creeps on us where we think it night.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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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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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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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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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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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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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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