Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Quote by John Dryden

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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...

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

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 round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

And plenty makes us poor.

And plenty makes us poor.

What all your sex desire is Sovereignty

What all your sex desire is Sovereignty

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it...

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it...

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...

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes...

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes...

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

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...

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

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.

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.