Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
JOHN DRYDENWhen we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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The winds are out of breath.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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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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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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