John Dryden - Love Quotes

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T' abhor the makers, and their laws approve,
Is to hate traitors and the treason love.

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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

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Time and death shall depart and say in flying
Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

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Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

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My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.

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My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

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Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

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Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.

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Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

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Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!

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Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

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I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

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Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet.

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And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

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Fairest Isle, all isles excelling,
Seat of pleasures, and of loves;
Venus here will choose her dwelling,
And forsake her Cyprian groves.

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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

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Calms appear, when storms are past,
Love will have its hour at last.

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How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd his youth, and now enjoys his age: All who deserve his love, he makes his own; And, to be lov'd himself, needs only to be known.

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When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

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Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

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Love and Time with reverence use,
Treat them like a parting friend:
Nor the golden gifts refuse
Which in youth sincere they send:
For each year their price is more,
And they less simple than before.

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Come, see what pleasures in our plains abound:
The woods, the fountains, and the flow'ry ground:
As you are beauteous, were you half so true,
Here could I live, and love, and die with only you.

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Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.

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Love did his reason blind,
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

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

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You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

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In hell, and earth, and seas, and heaven above,
Love conquers all, and we must yield to Love.

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