Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
JOHN DRYDENFor age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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