Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
JOHN DRYDENAll empire is no more than power in trust.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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