He loved me well: so well he could but die - To show he loved me better than his life; he lost it for me

Quote by John Dryden

Topics: Love Quotes

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount...

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount...

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he...

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he...

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs...

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs...

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an...

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an...

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who...

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who...

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the...

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the...

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from...

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from...

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we...

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we...

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging...

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging...

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like...

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like...

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers...

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers...