Love is love’s reward.
JOHN DRYDENAll things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Merit challenges envy.
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