Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
JOHN DRYDENMen are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
More John Dryden Quotes
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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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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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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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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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
JOHN DRYDEN






