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

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath...

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath...

All heiresses are beautiful.

All heiresses are beautiful.

Successful crimes alone are justified

Successful crimes alone are justified

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

God never made his work for man to mend.

God never made his work for man to mend.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides...

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides...

For they conquer who believe they can.

For they conquer who believe they can.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may...

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may...

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.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate...

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate...

To die is landing on some distant shore.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

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.

And plenty makes us poor.

And plenty makes us poor.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.