He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
JOHN DRYDENWhat precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
More John Dryden Quotes
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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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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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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