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 DRYDENThe glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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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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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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