Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
JOHN DRYDENFor age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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