Repartee is the soul of conversation.
JOHN DRYDENFor what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
More John Dryden Quotes
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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