He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
JOHN DRYDENThe scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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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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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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