For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
JOHN DRYDENGo 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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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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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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