They live too long who happiness outlive.
JOHN DRYDENPity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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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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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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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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