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 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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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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By education most have been misled.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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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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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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