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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden
Love
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
John Dryden
Age
Reason
Youth
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
Power
Repentance
Sin
Want
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
John Dryden
Now
Will
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
John Dryden
Fate
Future
Joy
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
John Dryden
Body
Shame
Spirit
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
John Dryden
Being
Pleasure
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
John Dryden
First
Law
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
John Dryden
Forgiveness
Wrong
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
John Dryden
World
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
John Dryden
Time
Genius
Action
May