“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.”
John Dryden
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“But love’s a malady without a cure.”
John Dryden
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“Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.”
John Dryden
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“Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.”
John Dryden
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“All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
John Dryden
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“He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.”
John Dryden
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“Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.”
John Dryden
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“To die is landing on some distant shore.”
John Dryden
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“Successful crimes alone are justified.”
John Dryden
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“Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.”
John Dryden
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“For all have not the gift of martyrdom.”
John Dryden
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“For they conquer who believe they can.”
John Dryden
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“Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.”
John Dryden
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“War is the trade of Kings.”
John Dryden
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“War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.”
John Dryden
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“Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.”
John Dryden
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“He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.”
John Dryden
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“Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.”
John Dryden
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“Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.”
John Dryden
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“Fortune befriends the bold.”
John Dryden
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