Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDENFor age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Merit challenges envy.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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